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GitHub Copilot Reaches 77,000 Organizations and Two Million Users

Elizabeth Pemeril · How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO · Nov 20, 2024 · at 2:22

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Elizabeth Pemeril, Chief Revenue Officer at GitHub, discusses the commercial scale and adoption of GitHub Copilot.

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“Step ahead to today, we have 77,000 organizations using GitHub Copilot and almost two million users.”

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The claim, plainly

GitHub Copilot is used by 77,000 organizations and almost 2 million users.

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Assessment

Official disclosures from Microsoft and GitHub from mid-to-late 2024 directly verify both figures in Elizabeth Pemeril's statement. During Microsoft's Q4 FY2024 earnings call (July 30, 2024) and subsequent SEC Schedule 14A Proxy Statement filings in August/September 2024, Microsoft disclosed that over 77,000 organizations had adopted GitHub Copilot for Business. Furthermore, Microsoft's Q3 FY2024 earnings call and an official GitHub blog post published in September 2024 confirmed 1.8 million paying subscribers (alongside over 500,000 non-paying educational/maintainer users), which fully aligns with the stated figure of 'almost two million users'.

Microsoft Q4 FY2024 earnings call (July 30, 2024) reported more than 77,000 organizations using GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft Schedule 14A SEC Proxy Statement (August/September 2024) confirmed over 1.8 million paid subscribers and over 77,000 organizations.
Official GitHub blog post by VP Shuyin Zhao (September 17, 2024) cited over 77,000 organizations and 1.8 million paid subscribers.

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"77,000 organizations" "Satya Nadella" "Copilot" Microsoft earnings call GitHub Copilot "77,000" OR "1.8 million" OR "2 million" "1.8 million paying subscribers" "GitHub Copilot" Satya Nadella Satya Nadella GitHub Copilot "77,000" OR "organizations" 2024 "GitHub Copilot" "77,000" organizations "GitHub Copilot" "77,000" "1.8 million"

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