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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 Founded 2008 San Francisco USA Developer Tools
Acquired by Microsoft.

GitHub founders & co-founders

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Where its founders came from

3

The companies and labs that produced GitHub’s founders.

What happened to GitHub’s founders and alumni

3 companies All ex-GitHub 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.

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