Comment on What's it like to work at GitHub?Comments−kyt14yThe 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.−jbarnette14yGitHub has been organized this way since it was in a pre-revenue state.−kyt14yThis is a misleading statement. According to Chris' founder story, they had customers at launch and he was the sole programmer.
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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.
GitHub has been organized this way since it was in a pre-revenue state.
This is a misleading statement. According to Chris' founder story, they had customers at launch and he was the sole programmer.