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GitHub
GitHub
IndustryBusiness Services & Supplies
Founded2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CEOChris Wanstrath
Employees650
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
As of Jul 11, 2017
With a community of over 22 million developers collaborating on more than 60 million projects, GitHub likes to think of itself as the Facebook for developers. GitHub remains the most famous repository for sharing code, from individual enthusiasts all the way up to General Electric. Even NASA made the source code that took Apollo 11 to the moon available on GitHub in late 2015.
I then recruited two students from my high school, Nikita Senthil and Safaa Hussain, who are also really passionate about computer science and tech, and they are currently CodELEVATE’s Co-Vice Presidents.
Sid Sijbrandij built a developer-tool business valued at nearly $3 billion without ever opening an office. Now he’s cautioning companies against doing telecommuting halfway.
The limited designs of spreadsheets and product management tools have made enforcing business processes and policies difficult over time. Vinay Patankar and Cameron Mckay have created Process Street, a no-code workflow startup, to digitize checklists for the 21st-century workforce.
Github, low-coders & Microsoft have forever changed programming – and business strategy. Github and low-code/no-code have leveled the technology playing field. Now anyone can "program" for business. Technological agility is just a platform away.
What the cases of arXiv, Github, Facebook and so many others show is that the information economy is becoming an offer network rather than a quantified economy.
GitHub, a free website, uses open source software to help coders collaborate while tracking versions and changes. Microsoft's 2018 purchase raised privacy and competitive concerns. Its recently announced Chinese GitHub subsidiary raises grave national security and internet freedom worries.
GitHub has decided to make a play for being a one-stop-shop for all things
code security with a series of announcements made at its annual GitHub Universe
conference.
Facebook hit the headlines last month for hosting dozens of groups where cybercriminals market illegal goods and services, but the problem extends right across social media. In just 15-minutes, fraud was so easily found on every site visited, that it even 'surprised' the security researcher.
Facebook's got love covered. Google owns knowledge. Amazon takes care of all our desires, perhaps, and Apple our dreams and aspirations. But Microsoft wants to own work.