GitHub

includes GitHub Copilot, GitHub Marketplace, GitHub Discussions

9 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2018 by Fred Stevens-Smith · said 167 times in 73 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jan 26, 2018 neutral
Insight
Stevens-Smith: Hybrid office and remote cultures inevitably diverge without continuous intervention
“When you have a culture where some segment is in an office, some segment is distributed, some segment is in another office. You have to continually work to bring these cultures back together as they diverge over time, you know, because the culture for the remo…”
Fred Stevens-Smith Jan 26, 2018 ▶ 9:43 916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name
Oct 23, 2018 negative
Opinion
Developers ignore SOC 2, leaving enterprise white space that GitHub misses
“GitHub is a great company, but it's a developer company. It's a developer tool loved by developers. You show me a developer that's concerned about SOC two or GDP or you know, I'll buy a bottle of Dom Perignon. They just aren't.”
Paul Lynch Oct 23, 2018 ▶ 18:20 1186 Why Assembla Sold to Venture Equity Firm, Using GDPR to Hit 60% yoy Growth
Jun 11, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
GitHub Discussions launch created direct competition for Q&A tool TrueQ
“And we also saw that GitHub is launching their discussions product, which also is a thing which is compute, competing with TrueQ a bit.”
Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 6:32 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product
Nov 11, 2021 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Yang: Yva.ai is probably only HR tool integrating collaboration sources
“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 13:58 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Feb 10, 2022
Disclosure
Digits raised from 72 angels, including Box, GitHub, and Twitter CEOs
“We actually had 72 angels in digits. And these are the CEOs of Box, it's Aaron, of GitHub, it's Nat, of Twitter, it's Dick Costolo, et cetera.”
Jeff Seibert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 16:51 Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Fig has accumulated 160 to 170 open-source contributors
“Over the course of our company, we've had, yeah, a 160, a 170 contributors.”
Brendan Falk Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 2:57 DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
Mar 27, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GitHub Brings Free Users While Bitbucket Drives Paying Enterprise Customers
“We have a lot of users from GitHub, but most of the users are free users. On Bitbucket, we have way less Bitbucket users, but these users come from companies, and these companies are more paying customers.”
Julian Delane Mar 27, 2022 ▶ 10:52 Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised
Mar 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Danjou: Mergify ranks on Google's first page for 'merge queue for GitHub'
“If you know what you're looking for, like a merge queue for GitHub I mean, we are in the first, Results on Google, so it's pretty easy to find us. We are one of the only company providing search services”
Julian Danjou Mar 27, 2023 ▶ 10:41 Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy
Mar 29, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Soni: GitHub has around 30 teams using Goldcast for events
“One of our largest customers is GitHub and they started with us in in May of 2020 and they Started with us doing an event series in, in Europe for one of their, you know, new product launches. So they did an event series throughout the year for 20, 30 events. …”
Palash Soni Mar 29, 2023 ▶ 1:34 Event SaaS hits $6m in ARR 100% YoY Growth and $128m Valuation on $28m Raise
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