| A | B |
|---|---|
| GitHub Invertocat logo | … |
| Repository of the website’s official documentation, storing its source code | … |
| Type of business | Subsidiary |
| Type of site | Collaborative version control |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | February 8, 2008 (as Logical Awesome LLC)1 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| 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 |
| Employees | 5,5953 |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| URL | github.com |
| IPv6 support | No45 |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining repositories) |
| Users | 150 million (as of May 2025) 6 |
| Launched | April 10, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | • Ruby • JavaScript • Go • C 7 • Rust 8 |
| ASN | 36459 |
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Footnotes
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“New Year, New Company”. GitHub. ↩
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“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. ↩
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“GitHub Diversity”. GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019. ↩
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“IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories · community · Discussion #10539”. GitHub. Retrieved December 29, 2024. ↩
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“dig +noquestion +noauthority @2001:4860:4860::8888 AAAA github.com”. isgithubipv6.live. Retrieved December 29, 2024. ↩
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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. ↩
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“GitHub”. GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2020. ↩
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“GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust”. ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023. ↩