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GitHub Interesting Key Facts
HCL is the fastest growing language in GitHub.
30% of Fortune 100 companies have OSPOs, most of them are using GitHub.
50% of first time contributors in GitHub work on commercially backed projects.
Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders and former CEO of GitHub, created TOML configuration file format.
TOML is named after Tom Preston-Werner. It is short for Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language.
Among the four founders, Chris Wanstrath is the only one that didn’t have a computer science related degree. He majored in English and then dropped out of college.
Chris Wanstrath taught himself how to program.
In 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub at a whooping $7.5 billion, 25 times GitHub’s revenue in 2017.
The acquisition made GitHub’s founders instant billionaires.
GitHub’s main competition in the open source industry is GitLab.
In February 28, 2018, GitHub was pummeled by the biggest DDoS attack the company has ever received with a size of 1.3 Terabytes per second, sending packets at a rate of 126.9 million per second!
GitHub was founded on the 8th of February, 2008 and then launched on the 10th of April within the same year. GitHub is based in San Francisco, and it has 4 founders.
How many repositories were created in GitHub per year?
Throughout the years, developers in GitHub had been creating repositories left and right. As of June 2022, GitHub reported that there are more than 200 million active repositories.
GitHub earn revenues through subscription plans and fees on third party apps sales. Presently, GitHub offers 3 distinct subscription plans that caters to both individuals and teams:
GitHub earns through subscription plans and prices
Presently, GitHub offers distinct subscription plans: Free, Team, and Enterprise.
The free subscription plan is included in the last as GitHub’s subscription is a freemium model where users that subscribed in the Free plan would be lured into subscribing on paid plans to access more features.
The following lists presents the pricing for each subscription plan:
Users in GitHub are free to create and list paid version of their apps wherein other users can then download and utilize these apps for their own uses.
GitHub generates revenue through this when users opt in to use these paid apps, a percentage of these earnings goes to GitHub via GitHub Marketplace plus transaction fees.
Users can choose to use the apps either:
free: cost nothing
pay a flat rate: prices vary, (no official data)
pay per unit used: prices vary, (no official data)
Just like any other company, as GitHub started to expand, there was a greater need for employees.
The graph below speaks for itself: in 2017, there were less than 1,000 people working at GitHub , and by 2022, there were 5,000 people hired for GitHub.
Below you can see a table-view of the data relating to how many people are employed at GitHub.
Much like GitHub’s developer community, GitHub is globally distributed. With 63% of the Hubbers working remotely prior to COVID-19, GitHub was able to adjust quickly when the pandemic hit.
The programs to support remote workers were extended to all Hubbers, such as the $1,500 USD stipend for all employees to set up their home offices, a telecommunications stipend, and ergonomic evaluation.Source: GitHub
GitHub Geographic Distribution of Employees - 2019
51.7 % of GitHub employees worked in Home Offices
29.8% of GitHub employees worked in San Francisco HQ
12.6% of GitHub employees worked in Coworking Space
The following data reflects the state of DI&B; at GitHub as of July 1st, 2020.
GitHub is aware that the standard reporting categories mandated by the U.S. federal government don’t currently support the diverse range of identities celebrated and represented among Hubbers (Employees).
The following is GitHub’s overall percentage distribution of racial and ethnic minorities in 2019:
With more than 1,170 new Hubbers joining GitHub from September 2021 up to October 2022, GitHub experienced significant growth across its employee base.
Simultaneously, GitHub continued to make strides in becoming a more diverse company, aiming to reflect the 90M+ developers around the globe that the company serve daily.
As GitHub continues to grow, their vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding their progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.
The following is GitHub’s overall percentage distribution of racial and ethnic minorities in 2020:
Since GitHub’s last report, Black, Asian, and Multiracial populations all saw improvements in representation.
Our Black Hubber population, in particular, more than doubled (from FY20 to FY22), and had an annual growth rate in FY22 of +60.3%, which was higher than that of GitHub US. There were improvements in other populations as well.
In the past two years, the number of Asian and Multiracial US Hubbers nearly doubled. And GitHub saw Black women also increase their representation.
Mirroring the last census results in the US, it can be seen that the category of multiracial Hubbers grew the most—a sign of how GitHub’s overall demographics are changing toward a more racially converging society.
While these achievements are a reason to pause and reflect on their progress, GitHub acknowledge there is room to grow—and is have excited to try new initiatives in plan to do so.
The following is GitHub’s overall percentage distribution of racial and ethnic minorities in 2022:
According to GitHub, in 2022, the overall representation of women reached 30.7% an increase of more than one full percentage point from the prior year.
The representation of women increased by +2.3 percentage points to 24.5%. A good portion of the population in the management position, which is 33.4%, are women that are above their representation from the previous year, strengthening the leadership pipeline.
Furthermore, the new hire population are made up of women at 33.4%.Source: GitHub
GitHub gender distribution of employees - 2019 (Global)
This is the data of gender distribution of employees or hubbers in 2019:
GitHub employees’ annual population growth rate, FY1- FY22 (Global)
As of October 22, for two years in a row, there is a significant growth in GitHub’s global employee population.
There is an increase of +37%. Github has hired 1,178 new employees or hubbers in FY22 with a hiring growth of 32.8%, making 41.9% of GitHub’s population new in FY22.
GitHub also reported an increase of +41.1% in the employee population of US and ethnic minorities.
Representation of Black employee population also grew by +60.3%, outpacing the US population growth.
An increase in Github’s Latinx employee population by +25.5% and GitHub’s US multiracial employee population also grew by +67.3%.
The following is the data of GitHub’s employee or hubber annual population growth rate:
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About the author
Ch Daniel is the co-founder of SignHouse and chairman of the CH Group. Daniel is leading the development of SignHouse's product, as well as strategising how else the company can reach its main mission: empowering 100M+ to use the world's most efficient document organisational tools.