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> What I really love about GitHub is that it's one of the really exciting companies that has never really disappointed nor sold out like Twitter did. To be com
by chimeracoder 14y ago
> What I really love about GitHub is that it's one of the really exciting companies that has never really disappointed nor sold out like Twitter did.
To be completely fair to Twitter, it's been less than a year since Github raised their first round of funding ($100MM). Twitter has raised $1.6 billion over the last seven years.
It's a lot easier not to sell out when your investors aren't pressuring you to pull a profit yet. (Also remember that almost all of Github's funding comes from a single investor).
I like Github, but it's a bit premature to say that they've "never sold out".
- kmfrk 14y agoThat just means that GitHub were much quicker to find a profitable business model than Twitter, though. :)