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Can you share details about some critical decisions you made that led to the success of Github?

• mojombo 16y ago
  Making the user the namespace for code instead of the project. Growing slowly and embracing the constraints of a limited budget in the early days. Hiring only the absolute best people that we could find. Hiring people that we knew through their code. Making sure they were good cultural fits. Not getting an office until two years after we started GitHub. Campfire was our office in the meantime and that let us put what money we did have into hiring the best people. Always thinking for ourselves.