Lame. GitHub should have written that they were using Andreessen Horowitz for their money. Without the $100MM would they have written that post, say, if Andreessen was joining their board? Fact is, they're fawning.
Investing in GitHub
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Re: Investing in GitHub
#12"Why? Because we want to be better." This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
Github is a private company that delivers on what it promises, it provides git hosting and tools around it. I don't think they are required to tell you anything about what they plan to do with said money.
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#13A16Z betting on Enterprise-tization of SaaS.
I.e. second leg of the current trend, when successful SaaS companies will offer products, which can be install on-premises.
In case of github it's Github for Your Firewall.
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#14Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.
The companies that regularly get covered on hackernews, techcrunch, etc. are not the sum total of technology companies in the valley or in the world. I work at one of those companies that doesn't get covered by tech crunch and it's phenomenal. The vast majority of my coworkers have some sort of prior experience at big name firms. One colleague just paid for his sons college education and mortgage from his time at Splunk. We do exist.
Re: Investing in GitHub
#15"Why? Because we want to be better." This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
Maybe they can actually make git usable? I've been using it for years; still hate it.
Re: Investing in GitHub
#16The following isn't meant to harm or critizise anyone, but isn't such kind of outside investment more about changing your now worthy company stack against some more handy dollar notes? If a company just needs cash for profitable ideas they could get a loan, right? So if that's the case why would people say differently in their blog? Well, anyway I'm happy that Github is doing fine.
They must have plans to venture out into unproven territory that includes risk to their core business that would make a bank balk at approving the loan.
Ah, that sounds reasonable.
Re: Investing in GitHub
#17A16Z betting on Enterprise-tization of SaaS. I.e. second leg of the current trend, when successful SaaS companies will offer products, which can be install on-premises. In case of github it's Github for Your Firewall.
I think you mean Github Enterprise?