this week on case studies with the biz
dockets github 7.5 billion dollar check
was just written from Microsoft to buy
the company are they gonna rot on the
vine or as Microsoft gonna take them
even higher we’re gonna find out this
week leave comments tell me what you
github it all started the history when
two guys founded the company there’s
actually a third founder and he’s kind
of quiet but it was Tom Preston Warner
and chris wanstrath they come together
to form github well what does it get and
what is a hub of them well what github
is it’s a consolidation point and it’s a
tracking point for software development
a git is actually a version control
mechanism or a team coordination
mechanism that was developed by Linus
Torvalds by the way that’s the same
Linus that brought us Linux so you know
he’s a really really smart guy so you
have this tracking mechanism needs you
need to control versions you need to get
software developers tools so they can
work together well github says what if
we made something in the cloud where
they could store their code keep track
of versions keep track of each other
talk to each other sign off when they
finished maybe an open source element
for it in other words hey I just adapted
your code for this and I’m signing off
as its complete so they had all of this
coming together in other words it’s a
sandbox where developers around the
world can come together and work and
make magic that you and I love and
company is like Oh Facebook IBM a whole
mess of others use it to bring the magic
to software and apps and products that
we depend on every day so let’s go up
the history curve and see how they grew
starting with the bright idea and moving
up in 2009 they had about 46,000
developer accounts that were in place
which was pretty amazing because they
just got started no wait and they
basically bootstrapped it with their own
money a year later they had gotten up to
about a hundred thousand but halfway
through 2010 a year after that they were
already at a million something was going
on and the world was watching and paying
attention specifically a year later when
they hit 2 million total user accounts
and they passed SourceForge and Google
to other repositories that allow
developers to work together store code
and do things like that and when it’s
time to grow what do you need you need
capital you need venture cash and who
they get with none other than in dreesen
Horowitz
that’s right Marc Andreessen the
developer and inventor of the original
netscape browser who know a thing or two
about what developers would appreciate
and need and what they did is they put
in a hundred million dollars for about
thirteen percent of the young github
company and I say young because it’s
only a few years old but it’s passing
some industry giants an interesting
tidbit there is at that time that was
the largest check ever written to date
by andreessen horowitz a hundred million
dollars from there the growth continued
let’s check it out 2013 suddenly they’ve
blown right past three million and
they’re at five million unique user
accounts it’s really off like a rocket
and it’s taken on a global presence
there are developers around the world
that are storing code in there and
sometimes they’re storing versions to a
lot of things that weren’t appealing to
certain governments as we go into 2014
things are speeding past five million
toward ten million accounts and
something interesting happen first India
decides to block them because they had
some documentation on there that was
related to Isis and the Indian
government did not like that and did not
want it to be circulated to developers
or other people who might be using
github for their own purposes also in
Russia they were very upset because
there was like a suicide manual that had
been put online and Russia wanted to
block access to it in 2015 halfway
through the year China gets upset and
China wants to block a github for a very
simple reason they were presenting how
to avoid internet censorship now if you
know anything about the Chinese
government you know there was a major
WTF going on in Beijing when they heard
that that sort of information is out
there they’re trying to shut down cable
channels and objectionable programming
and web sites and you know I got to say
China and the age of the internet you’re
gonna be playing whack-a-mole till the
return of Christ because get used to it
one goes down and others coming up
nonetheless it shows you the power and
influence that github was having as an
enabler of teams of people to come
together and collaborate and keep track
of versions and all of the features that
were part of github in July of 15 the
success led to a need for more capital
and they went out and they raised 250
million dollars that’s right a quarter
of a billion dollars and they raised it
from none other than Sequoia now there’s
an interesting thing here that I’d like
to point out if you take a look what I
got here 13% was what andreessen
horowitz had had andreessen horowitz not
had what’s called a top-up right in
other words the right to invest more at
a later date to keep my 13% at 13% they
would have actually gone down to eleven
point four percent but they kept their
top upright which meant that these
numbers came together Sequoia with 12
and a half and andreessen horowitz with
13 now why is that important because by
this time it is a rare thing that an
entrepreneur would still have 75% of the
company for the founders and the
engineers and the people that have been
given stock options in that company
normally by this time it’s completely
flipped there’s about 25 percent left
for management and there’s 75 percent in
the hands of the investors that go
through the sequential Series A Series B
Series C which is using letters and
merely to number the investment tranches
that happen over time the company so
github is doing pretty good out in the
marketplace and they also did pretty
good because they bootstrap the company
basically and when they got to these
points when they took capital they were
highly valuable so they only gave up
relatively small percent compared to
what other companies would be giving up
that is an important lesson you can
raise capital to late and miss
opportunities to invest in things and
you can also raise capital to early and
give away more of your company early on
when maybe you should have reached down
deep and bootstrapped or you know used
any of the many crowdsourcing options
that might be available to you don’t be
too anxious to raise that capital but
don’t pass up opportunities to raise
capital to grow there
is the tension that every entrepreneur
will face so after you’ve raised that
money how are they doing well a report
came out in nine months of 2016
it got disclosed that they had actually
had approximately ninety nine million
dollars in revenue for the first nine
months of 16 but they had lost sixty
eight million dollars showing that
building a global github to serve these
all these millions and millions of
accounts was not cheap however this is
showing the kind of scale when you’ve
got the dollars to actually weather
those losses as you scale it puts you in
a good place because let’s take a look
what was happening to the number of user
accounts number of user accounts was
heading to the moon had passed 10
million in 1415 and by the time they
reach early 17 after this loss which was
the first nine months of 16 they were at
20 million plus user accounts well now
that they raised this money so to propel
them on future growth curve and
certainly they were using it as they
went past 10 million subscribers and
we’re heading toward the moon after nine
months of 2016 it was indicated that
they had actually had revenue of 99
million dollars however they had a loss
of 68 million dollars which means the
cost in the middle a hundred and sixty
seven million dollars of cost against
ninety nine million dollars of revenue
resulting in this loss so this is what’s
interesting about growing and scaling
companies sometimes losses are okay
twitter did it for a long time uber has
been doing it since
boobers been around and we all know what
happened to Amazon that finally over
time they posted profits so if you can
control the spend and whether the loss
as you’re growing toward the moon this
this is something that you can actually
sustain so what I want to step to now we
talked about the history very briefly I
want to talk about a flub that happened
to the founder back a couple years ago
and this is before all of the me2
movement and things that were going on
Tom Preston Werner his wife is working
with him at the company and there is a
female developer that says they’re
treating me badly they’re treating me
harshly
you know I’m being harassed he’s very
dictatorial he gives
feedback in a very demeaning way so
wasn’t sexual harassment but it was like
a hostile workplace a terrible
environment and she became fed up and
she filed a complaint well the first
thing they did like everybody else did
is nothing to see here this is a
disgruntled employee obviously these are
outrageous claims well guess what they
spent a couple weeks researching it and
the board came to a conclusion that said
you know what the wife wasn’t supposed
to be working here we had an agreement
with Tom number one number two these
charges have some merit so yes what I
think even though he’s a co-founder of
the company and he owns a big stack of
stock out and Tom Preston Warner
resigned if you call resigning walking
toward the door with the board pushing
you on the shoulders resigning but
nonetheless he resigned so now you’ve
got bye-bye
there’s a lesson here you can lose it
all just because you’re the founder
doesn’t mean that you can be a putz when
it comes to giving people feedback or
just ignore the fact that people’s
feelings and professionalism are
important and frequently you find people
say hey if you want to be here and you
want your stock options and you want
part of this I am Who I am
leave me alone guess what that doesn’t
fly anymore and it doesn’t fly when
you’ve got harsh emotional harassment
and it certainly doesn’t fly as we’ve
seen thank you matt lauer Thank You
Harvey Weinstein with the me2 movement
uncovering things that have been going
on far too long I digress let’s get back
to github in this situation well guess
what you have two years after this
happened in 2017 you still had a little
bit of collateral damage here as there
were claims that he had set a culture in
place and not everything was rosy there
was a few more dynamics that came here
that supposedly it was handled but it’s
an example of even with uber just
because Travis has left the company
there was still people that were in
there that were made in Travis’s image
hired by Travis and upset that he was
gone that hadn’t really changed the way
they were treating other people and that
they were acting and so they’ve had to
be dealt with as well so in other words
you can ask a co-founder to leave but it
doesn’t necessarily change a culture
overnight lesson two entrepreneurs set
your culture early it can be a culture
of high accountability and performance
and
man’s to hit objectives you just got to
treat the people in the correct way and
manage yourself accordingly because it
can and will bite you even if you’ve got
350 million dollars of investment from
andreessen horowitz and Sequoia so
you’ve got a company that’s been growing
like crazy you’ve got a board that’s
done the right thing to help the work
environment be healed and you’ve got
with all the success what do you attract
attention and attention from who from
Microsoft and the 28 million developers
and the 1.8 million businesses that were
working with github at the beginning of
18 Microsoft was the most active among
them in other words Microsoft that finds
says hey this github thing works and
they had several of their own products
and product groups using github for
collaboration and using it to help
developers collaborate which is kind of
interesting because there’s a lot of
people that say wait a minute wait a
minute
Microsoft’s been trying to kill
open-source why would they be using or
in favor of something that helps
collaboration well the times they are
a-changin and Microsoft is changing
maybe not as fast as some people want
but they are changing how do we know
well they wrote a 7.5 billion dollar
check this is 3.75 times more value just
three years later and there’s only one
word for that net is dam that is a huge
growth curve now their percent comes
home so andreessen horowitz gets 13 of
that Sequoia twelve and a half percent
of that give or take that’s their
returns now there’s something else that
happened this year which was
unprecedented and it happened to github
a distributed denial-of-service let me
explain what that is a distributed of
denial services where some bad actor
either uses or commandeer thousands and
thousands and thousands of pcs some of
which are infected with viruses that
cause them to go into zombie mode so
they can be controlled by these bad
actors and they attempt to hit
individual websites with so much traffic
and force that services denied in other
words the website is so busy trying to
react to all of this incoming traffic
that when you and I try to go there we
can’t get there have you ever gone to
your favorite web site or some location
that you like and it turns around
around and around and around but you
can’t get there and you refresh the web
browser and you close the browser and
start again it’s still here and you
can’t get to it
one of two things is happening they’re
having a distributed denial of service
attack or their servers down either way
they can’t serve you the webpage that
you can visit that site what happened
here it was the largest distributed
denial of service traffic hit in history
it was one point three five terabytes
now let me tell you what a terabyte is
if you take a terabyte you divide it by
eight you get point one six eight seven
five terabytes now let’s turn a terabyte
into a megabyte because you and I
understand megabytes like when our
camera phone takes a picture most of us
are taking a picture and that’s like a
little two megabyte file so if we text
it to somebody or email it to somebody
the data we use for that it’s going to
be about two megabytes because that’s
the size of that picture well 0.168
seven five terabytes is roughly a
hundred and sixty seven thousand eight
hundred and fifty megabytes that’s a lot
of megabytes well if we think of the
picture at two megabytes that is eighty
four thousand three hundred and
seventy-five pictures per second that
we’re being thrown at the website well
that’s just a second how much is that a
minute that would be like 5.1 million
pictures a minute being hit to that
website so if the website is trying to
catch all that at once that was the size
of the data coming at it now I have
another way to look at it I turn it into
a glass of water let’s say you take a
can of your favorite soda and you take a
little gulp of it that’s probably about
two ounces give or take a nice big swig
is about two ounces what if we take
those two ounces and apply the same math
that would mean you would have a hundred
and sixty seven thousand eight hundred
and fifty ounces per second trying to go
down your throat well there’s a hundred
and twenty eight ounces in a gallon so
that would be one thousand three hundred
and eighteen gallons per second that
you’re trying to drink so picture
yourself taking a little swig of soda
and someone that tries to drown you hit
you with one thousand three hundred and
eighteen gallons
so now when you convert that you imagine
it in something we can understand this
that much water that’s what happens in a
distributed denial-of-service some bad
actor gets all those computers together
boom and they hit github and it brought
it to its freakin knees now these are
smart technologists so they quickly
figure out how to stop the DDoS and how
to reroute traffic and to do things to
get out of it so that people that are
using github can get back to it
nonetheless I thought that would be an
interesting lesson converting that kind
of traffic to something we understand
the swig of soda now let’s take a look
at a couple of reasons that Microsoft
has actually published as for the
additional rationale first of all they
said we need to be developer focused and
if this is the leading tool in the known
universe for doing something like this
then we need to be in and why wouldn’t
we own it additionally they took NAT
Friedman who’s the corporate VP of
developer relations he’s going to be
plugged in as the division president or
CEO of github when the deal closes you
also take a look at cloud and you look
at the amount of effort that Microsoft
already was putting in being an active
user and suddenly this starts to make
sense so time will tell where the
Microsoft pulls it off or it’s the old
Microsoft the going back to their old
ways and github dies a terrible death
kind of the way Time Warner killed AOL
and other big companies have bought
promising things in life and we’ve just
watched them rot on the vine I hope they
make it because I’m in favor of
developer tools that enable the magic of
software to make more stuff for me
tomorrow than I have today because I dig
using it in my life love to hear what
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dockets github 7.5 billion dollar check
was just written from Microsoft to buy
the company are they gonna rot on the
vine or as Microsoft gonna take them
even higher we’re gonna find out this
week leave comments tell me what you
github it all started the history when
two guys founded the company there’s
actually a third founder and he’s kind
of quiet but it was Tom Preston Warner
and chris wanstrath they come together
to form github well what does it get and
what is a hub of them well what github
is it’s a consolidation point and it’s a
tracking point for software development
a git is actually a version control
mechanism or a team coordination
mechanism that was developed by Linus
Torvalds by the way that’s the same
Linus that brought us Linux so you know
he’s a really really smart guy so you
have this tracking mechanism needs you
need to control versions you need to get
software developers tools so they can
work together well github says what if
we made something in the cloud where
they could store their code keep track
of versions keep track of each other
talk to each other sign off when they
finished maybe an open source element
for it in other words hey I just adapted
your code for this and I’m signing off
as its complete so they had all of this
coming together in other words it’s a
sandbox where developers around the
world can come together and work and
make magic that you and I love and
company is like Oh Facebook IBM a whole
mess of others use it to bring the magic
to software and apps and products that
we depend on every day so let’s go up
the history curve and see how they grew
starting with the bright idea and moving
up in 2009 they had about 46,000
developer accounts that were in place
which was pretty amazing because they
just got started no wait and they
basically bootstrapped it with their own
money a year later they had gotten up to
about a hundred thousand but halfway
through 2010 a year after that they were
already at a million something was going
on and the world was watching and paying
attention specifically a year later when
they hit 2 million total user accounts
and they passed SourceForge and Google
to other repositories that allow
developers to work together store code
and do things like that and when it’s
time to grow what do you need you need
capital you need venture cash and who
they get with none other than in dreesen
Horowitz
that’s right Marc Andreessen the
developer and inventor of the original
netscape browser who know a thing or two
about what developers would appreciate
and need and what they did is they put
in a hundred million dollars for about
thirteen percent of the young github
company and I say young because it’s
only a few years old but it’s passing
some industry giants an interesting
tidbit there is at that time that was
the largest check ever written to date
by andreessen horowitz a hundred million
dollars from there the growth continued
let’s check it out 2013 suddenly they’ve
blown right past three million and
they’re at five million unique user
accounts it’s really off like a rocket
and it’s taken on a global presence
there are developers around the world
that are storing code in there and
sometimes they’re storing versions to a
lot of things that weren’t appealing to
certain governments as we go into 2014
things are speeding past five million
toward ten million accounts and
something interesting happen first India
decides to block them because they had
some documentation on there that was
related to Isis and the Indian
government did not like that and did not
want it to be circulated to developers
or other people who might be using
github for their own purposes also in
Russia they were very upset because
there was like a suicide manual that had
been put online and Russia wanted to
block access to it in 2015 halfway
through the year China gets upset and
China wants to block a github for a very
simple reason they were presenting how
to avoid internet censorship now if you
know anything about the Chinese
government you know there was a major
WTF going on in Beijing when they heard
that that sort of information is out
there they’re trying to shut down cable
channels and objectionable programming
and web sites and you know I got to say
China and the age of the internet you’re
gonna be playing whack-a-mole till the
return of Christ because get used to it
one goes down and others coming up
nonetheless it shows you the power and
influence that github was having as an
enabler of teams of people to come
together and collaborate and keep track
of versions and all of the features that
were part of github in July of 15 the
success led to a need for more capital
and they went out and they raised 250
million dollars that’s right a quarter
of a billion dollars and they raised it
from none other than Sequoia now there’s
an interesting thing here that I’d like
to point out if you take a look what I
got here 13% was what andreessen
horowitz had had andreessen horowitz not
had what’s called a top-up right in
other words the right to invest more at
a later date to keep my 13% at 13% they
would have actually gone down to eleven
point four percent but they kept their
top upright which meant that these
numbers came together Sequoia with 12
and a half and andreessen horowitz with
13 now why is that important because by
this time it is a rare thing that an
entrepreneur would still have 75% of the
company for the founders and the
engineers and the people that have been
given stock options in that company
normally by this time it’s completely
flipped there’s about 25 percent left
for management and there’s 75 percent in
the hands of the investors that go
through the sequential Series A Series B
Series C which is using letters and
merely to number the investment tranches
that happen over time the company so
github is doing pretty good out in the
marketplace and they also did pretty
good because they bootstrap the company
basically and when they got to these
points when they took capital they were
highly valuable so they only gave up
relatively small percent compared to
what other companies would be giving up
that is an important lesson you can
raise capital to late and miss
opportunities to invest in things and
you can also raise capital to early and
give away more of your company early on
when maybe you should have reached down
deep and bootstrapped or you know used
any of the many crowdsourcing options
that might be available to you don’t be
too anxious to raise that capital but
don’t pass up opportunities to raise
capital to grow there
is the tension that every entrepreneur
will face so after you’ve raised that
money how are they doing well a report
came out in nine months of 2016
it got disclosed that they had actually
had approximately ninety nine million
dollars in revenue for the first nine
months of 16 but they had lost sixty
eight million dollars showing that
building a global github to serve these
all these millions and millions of
accounts was not cheap however this is
showing the kind of scale when you’ve
got the dollars to actually weather
those losses as you scale it puts you in
a good place because let’s take a look
what was happening to the number of user
accounts number of user accounts was
heading to the moon had passed 10
million in 1415 and by the time they
reach early 17 after this loss which was
the first nine months of 16 they were at
20 million plus user accounts well now
that they raised this money so to propel
them on future growth curve and
certainly they were using it as they
went past 10 million subscribers and
we’re heading toward the moon after nine
months of 2016 it was indicated that
they had actually had revenue of 99
million dollars however they had a loss
of 68 million dollars which means the
cost in the middle a hundred and sixty
seven million dollars of cost against
ninety nine million dollars of revenue
resulting in this loss so this is what’s
interesting about growing and scaling
companies sometimes losses are okay
twitter did it for a long time uber has
been doing it since
boobers been around and we all know what
happened to Amazon that finally over
time they posted profits so if you can
control the spend and whether the loss
as you’re growing toward the moon this
this is something that you can actually
sustain so what I want to step to now we
talked about the history very briefly I
want to talk about a flub that happened
to the founder back a couple years ago
and this is before all of the me2
movement and things that were going on
Tom Preston Werner his wife is working
with him at the company and there is a
female developer that says they’re
treating me badly they’re treating me
harshly
you know I’m being harassed he’s very
dictatorial he gives
feedback in a very demeaning way so
wasn’t sexual harassment but it was like
a hostile workplace a terrible
environment and she became fed up and
she filed a complaint well the first
thing they did like everybody else did
is nothing to see here this is a
disgruntled employee obviously these are
outrageous claims well guess what they
spent a couple weeks researching it and
the board came to a conclusion that said
you know what the wife wasn’t supposed
to be working here we had an agreement
with Tom number one number two these
charges have some merit so yes what I
think even though he’s a co-founder of
the company and he owns a big stack of
stock out and Tom Preston Warner
resigned if you call resigning walking
toward the door with the board pushing
you on the shoulders resigning but
nonetheless he resigned so now you’ve
got bye-bye
there’s a lesson here you can lose it
all just because you’re the founder
doesn’t mean that you can be a putz when
it comes to giving people feedback or
just ignore the fact that people’s
feelings and professionalism are
important and frequently you find people
say hey if you want to be here and you
want your stock options and you want
part of this I am Who I am
leave me alone guess what that doesn’t
fly anymore and it doesn’t fly when
you’ve got harsh emotional harassment
and it certainly doesn’t fly as we’ve
seen thank you matt lauer Thank You
Harvey Weinstein with the me2 movement
uncovering things that have been going
on far too long I digress let’s get back
to github in this situation well guess
what you have two years after this
happened in 2017 you still had a little
bit of collateral damage here as there
were claims that he had set a culture in
place and not everything was rosy there
was a few more dynamics that came here
that supposedly it was handled but it’s
an example of even with uber just
because Travis has left the company
there was still people that were in
there that were made in Travis’s image
hired by Travis and upset that he was
gone that hadn’t really changed the way
they were treating other people and that
they were acting and so they’ve had to
be dealt with as well so in other words
you can ask a co-founder to leave but it
doesn’t necessarily change a culture
overnight lesson two entrepreneurs set
your culture early it can be a culture
of high accountability and performance
and
man’s to hit objectives you just got to
treat the people in the correct way and
manage yourself accordingly because it
can and will bite you even if you’ve got
350 million dollars of investment from
andreessen horowitz and Sequoia so
you’ve got a company that’s been growing
like crazy you’ve got a board that’s
done the right thing to help the work
environment be healed and you’ve got
with all the success what do you attract
attention and attention from who from
Microsoft and the 28 million developers
and the 1.8 million businesses that were
working with github at the beginning of
18 Microsoft was the most active among
them in other words Microsoft that finds
says hey this github thing works and
they had several of their own products
and product groups using github for
collaboration and using it to help
developers collaborate which is kind of
interesting because there’s a lot of
people that say wait a minute wait a
minute
Microsoft’s been trying to kill
open-source why would they be using or
in favor of something that helps
collaboration well the times they are
a-changin and Microsoft is changing
maybe not as fast as some people want
but they are changing how do we know
well they wrote a 7.5 billion dollar
check this is 3.75 times more value just
three years later and there’s only one
word for that net is dam that is a huge
growth curve now their percent comes
home so andreessen horowitz gets 13 of
that Sequoia twelve and a half percent
of that give or take that’s their
returns now there’s something else that
happened this year which was
unprecedented and it happened to github
a distributed denial-of-service let me
explain what that is a distributed of
denial services where some bad actor
either uses or commandeer thousands and
thousands and thousands of pcs some of
which are infected with viruses that
cause them to go into zombie mode so
they can be controlled by these bad
actors and they attempt to hit
individual websites with so much traffic
and force that services denied in other
words the website is so busy trying to
react to all of this incoming traffic
that when you and I try to go there we
can’t get there have you ever gone to
your favorite web site or some location
that you like and it turns around
around and around and around but you
can’t get there and you refresh the web
browser and you close the browser and
start again it’s still here and you
can’t get to it
one of two things is happening they’re
having a distributed denial of service
attack or their servers down either way
they can’t serve you the webpage that
you can visit that site what happened
here it was the largest distributed
denial of service traffic hit in history
it was one point three five terabytes
now let me tell you what a terabyte is
if you take a terabyte you divide it by
eight you get point one six eight seven
five terabytes now let’s turn a terabyte
into a megabyte because you and I
understand megabytes like when our
camera phone takes a picture most of us
are taking a picture and that’s like a
little two megabyte file so if we text
it to somebody or email it to somebody
the data we use for that it’s going to
be about two megabytes because that’s
the size of that picture well 0.168
seven five terabytes is roughly a
hundred and sixty seven thousand eight
hundred and fifty megabytes that’s a lot
of megabytes well if we think of the
picture at two megabytes that is eighty
four thousand three hundred and
seventy-five pictures per second that
we’re being thrown at the website well
that’s just a second how much is that a
minute that would be like 5.1 million
pictures a minute being hit to that
website so if the website is trying to
catch all that at once that was the size
of the data coming at it now I have
another way to look at it I turn it into
a glass of water let’s say you take a
can of your favorite soda and you take a
little gulp of it that’s probably about
two ounces give or take a nice big swig
is about two ounces what if we take
those two ounces and apply the same math
that would mean you would have a hundred
and sixty seven thousand eight hundred
and fifty ounces per second trying to go
down your throat well there’s a hundred
and twenty eight ounces in a gallon so
that would be one thousand three hundred
and eighteen gallons per second that
you’re trying to drink so picture
yourself taking a little swig of soda
and someone that tries to drown you hit
you with one thousand three hundred and
eighteen gallons
so now when you convert that you imagine
it in something we can understand this
that much water that’s what happens in a
distributed denial-of-service some bad
actor gets all those computers together
boom and they hit github and it brought
it to its freakin knees now these are
smart technologists so they quickly
figure out how to stop the DDoS and how
to reroute traffic and to do things to
get out of it so that people that are
using github can get back to it
nonetheless I thought that would be an
interesting lesson converting that kind
of traffic to something we understand
the swig of soda now let’s take a look
at a couple of reasons that Microsoft
has actually published as for the
additional rationale first of all they
said we need to be developer focused and
if this is the leading tool in the known
universe for doing something like this
then we need to be in and why wouldn’t
we own it additionally they took NAT
Friedman who’s the corporate VP of
developer relations he’s going to be
plugged in as the division president or
CEO of github when the deal closes you
also take a look at cloud and you look
at the amount of effort that Microsoft
already was putting in being an active
user and suddenly this starts to make
sense so time will tell where the
Microsoft pulls it off or it’s the old
Microsoft the going back to their old
ways and github dies a terrible death
kind of the way Time Warner killed AOL
and other big companies have bought
promising things in life and we’ve just
watched them rot on the vine I hope they
make it because I’m in favor of
developer tools that enable the magic of
software to make more stuff for me
tomorrow than I have today because I dig
using it in my life love to hear what
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