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manigandham on Aug 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Github wasn't profitable but had plenty of marketshare to guarantee more funding.

Also Microsoft has plenty of infrastructure and did not need Github. How do you think Windows and Office were built for decades?

aitchnyu on Aug 12, 2021 [–]

Wow. I have memories reading Github is a bootstrapped, profitable and dominant 90 person company. What happened to profitability?

manigandham on Aug 12, 2021 | [–]

Venture capital happened: https://archive.is/1t6qi

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