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Three and a half years after his return, Chris Wanstrath will step down as CEO of popular developer platform GitHub after leading the search to find his own replacement.
Wanstrath will continue as chief executive until the new leader is found, at which time he'll move into an executive chairman role, he told employees at an all-hands meeting on Thursday [August 17]. Staff had convened at GitHub's San Francisco headquarters to celebrate the company passing $200 million in annualized revenue and reaching new user highs for its popular code repository site valued by investors at $2 billion.
The decision to step down was one that Wanstrath has been considering for months, he told Forbes in an interview. The beginning of 2017 marked the ten-year anniversary of the first commit of code getting pushed to GitHub (the company was formally founded in February 2008). Around that time, Wanstrath began speaking with investors, advisers and friends about the long-term future of the company. "GitHub has a great brand and we have a great community," Wanstrath says. "We could find someone really seasoned to take the CEO role and lead us for the next ten years, and we wouldn't need to lose me."
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-to-step-down/?c=0#33c9269eadd3 [Javascript essential]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @01:35AM (1 child)
Right because you are not competent enough to run your own servers, I have hear of this chod sorry cloud that you speak of but in my limited understanding I still don't get why you would want to give the key's to the kingdom to random 3rd parties
(Score: 2) by chromas on Monday August 21 2017, @09:48AM
Doesn't matter; cut costs. If something happens, not my problem. Let someone else deal with it. In the mean time, profits are up, baby!