GitHub

GitHub, Inc. is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software... Wikipedia

• Type of business:  Subsidiary
• Available in:  English
• Founded:  February 8, 2008 (as Logical Awesome LLC)
• Area served:  Worldwide
• Founder(s):  Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Scott Chacon
• CEO:  Thomas Dohmke
• Key people:  Mike Taylor (CFO), Erica Brescia (COO)
• Industry:  Collaborative version control (GitHub), Blog host (GitHub Pages), Package repository (NPM)
• Revenue:  $200–300 million (2018)
• Employees:  2,500
• Parent:  Microsoft
• Registration:  Optional (required for creating and joining repositories, and browsing all repositories.)
• Users:  100 million (as of January 2023)
• Launched:  April 10, 2008
• Current status:  Active
• Written in:  Ruby, JavaScript, Go, C
• Data Source:  DuckDuckGo