I don't think GitHub took any VC money until just recently and they only took VC money after they had been successful, ubiquitous, and profitable. The money was taken to be able to build an enterprise sales team / pipeline for GitHub:FI (Github's self hosted option).
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 12, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - Silicon Valley venture capitalists are deliberately running a > "ubiquity first, revenue later" strategy for GitHub, which means it's > important to plan for an exit strategy if the flow of free money (and > the associated free services) dries up when investors start getting > impatient for their returns. _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list core-workflow@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
