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Repository of the website’s official documentation, storing its source code
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of siteCollaborative version control
Available inEnglish
FoundedFebruary 8, 2008 (as Logical Awesome LLC)1
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Area servedWorldwide
Founders• Tom Preston-Werner
• Chris Wanstrath
• P. J. Hyett
• Scott Chacon
Key people• Mike Taylor (CFO)
• Kyle Daigle (COO)
Industry• Collaborative version control (GitHub)
• AI development tools (GitHub Copilot)
• Web host (GitHub Pages)
• Package repository (npm)
Revenue📈 $1 billion (2022)2
Employees5,5953
ParentMicrosoft
URLgithub.com
IPv6 supportNo45
RegistrationOptional (required for creating and joining repositories)
Users150 million (as of May 2025) 6
LaunchedApril 10, 2008
Current statusActive
Written in• Ruby
• JavaScript
• Go
• C 7
• Rust 8
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Footnotes

  1. “New Year, New Company”. GitHub.

  2. “Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users”. TechCrunch. October 25, 2022. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.

  3. “GitHub Diversity”. GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019.

  4. “IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories · community · Discussion #10539”. GitHub. Retrieved December 29, 2024.

  5. “dig +noquestion +noauthority @2001:4860:4860::8888 AAAA github.com”. isgithubipv6.live. Retrieved December 29, 2024.

  6. Muralidharan, Prakash (May 27, 2025). “GitHub just crossed 150 million users. But that stat isn’t about scale. It’s about signal”. LinkedIn. Retrieved August 4, 2025.

  7. “GitHub”. GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2020.

  8. “GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust”. ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023.