I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by hultner on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:07PM (#17259729)

Do they? Are they backed by capital pushing for an “Exit”, and even if so, couldn’t an IPO be a viable option?

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by irq11 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:16PM (#17259830)

They’ve taken a big pile of VC funding, so the answer to your first question is yes.

Meanwhile, the biggest player (by far) in the market just abandoned dreams of an IPO. Gitlab is a distant third place in that market, and has a revenue model that is best described as “like Github, but cheaper.”

IPOs are only viable if you have a business capable of supporting them.

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by gaius on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:43PM (#17260078)

There are only two possibilities I see: acquired by Atlassian and merged with Bitbucket, or by a low-tier cloud player with deep pockets such as Aliyun or Oracle. The IPO market just isn’t that buoyant at the moment.

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by inks on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:42AM (#17264713)

Oracle has been looking at GitLab since the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub.

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by skinnymuch on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:34PM (#17261313)

Is Gitlab a distant third? I didn’t know if they are in second place or not. But distant seems too much. Is Bitbucket in second place? Any numbers or references you have?

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Re:I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA by Jedd on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:14PM (#17260794)

> ... that is best described as “like Github, but cheaper.”

Aha, I thought I may find you on this thread, once again pushing the same line.

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