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GitHub
GitHub was founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, PJ Hyett, Scott Chacon and Tom Preston-Werner. It is a Developer Tools company that was later acquired.
Code hosting and collaboration platform built on Git, acquired by Microsoft.
Acquired by Microsoft.
GitHub founders & co-founders
5Where its founders came from
3The companies and labs that produced GitHub’s founders.
People who worked at or founded GitHub and went on to start their own companies.
The GitHub lineage graph — click any node to keep exploring.