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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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GitHub's Acquisition Offer Landed

I wanted to do it in two years. We announced it on my one year anniversary. So as a year ahead of schedule, it happened much faster than I had anticipated it being possible to happen. The founder stepping aside while he was looking for his replacement accelerated a whole bunch of things. And essentially between myself, the head of sales and the CFO, we were running everything at the company.

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