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kyt on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's it like to work at GitHub?

The reason why this environment works at GitHub is because they're profitable -- extremely so. Money rolls in regardless of what their engineers are working on. If they were in a pre-revenue state I doubt they would be organized in the same way.

jbarnette on June 6, 2012 [–]

GitHub has been organized this way since it was in a pre-revenue state.

kyt on June 6, 2012 | [–]

This is a misleading statement. According to Chris' founder story, they had customers at launch and he was the sole programmer.

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