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I’m pretty sure they’ve been profitable since the first month of private repos.

• hobofan 8y ago
  AFAIK the timeline of profitability is somewhat like this: - really profitable after introducing private repos - burning quite some money for growth after they took VC money - really profitable again after they changed their pricing to per-seat pricing
  • aaron-lebo 8y ago
    They lost 66 million as recently as 2016. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574
    • hobofan 8y ago
      They introduced the new pricing in the middle of 2016[0]. [0]: https://blog.github.com/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories/ https://blog.github.com/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-pri...