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Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead by cwyers on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @01:51PM (#17240240)
I'm pretty sure that the economics were aligned with getting bought out by someone. Upselling people who used the free product was not making them profitable and they weren't on the path to profitable.
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Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead by TAForObvReasons on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:24PM (#17240582)
The GitHub story is complex. There was a time years ago when they were profitable: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-... They and Sidekiq were the poster children of bootstrapped profitable businesses around open source. Something very clearly changed (most likely raising a boatload from VC firms and the ensuing perils) that flipped the situation.
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Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead by scarface74 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:45PM (#17244221)
GitHub had thier first round of VC funding in 2012.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github

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