<story><title>Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-a-round-from-andreessen-horowitz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hemancuso</author><text>I think it&apos;s easy to over-estimate the success and ubiquity of GitHub if you spend all day on HN. The real money-make for SCM is still Perforce, according to schacon at a somewhat recent drink-up in Boston.&lt;p&gt;These questions about GitHub vs. Pinterest are revealing in that I think many folk on HN don&apos;t realize what a relatively small community of developers this is. Relative to the tens of millions of folk on Pinerest. Heck, GitHub&apos;s front page reveals they have only 1.6 million users.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if their growth curve has started to flatten out. I hope they have a great plan/vision for what to do with the money, because running GitHub ad infinitum as an immensely successful small software company would seem to be a dream to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-a-round-from-andreessen-horowitz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markerdmann</author><text>I&apos;m surprised by this. Tom Preston-Werner&apos;s talk at Startup School 2010, which had a strong influence on me and many of my friends (we still refer to it often), was very anti-VC.&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the talk, and a relevant quote from the introduction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272031754&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272031754&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;But for me, I don&apos;t have to worry about these things, because GitHub has never taken any funding, ever. So I want to talk a little bit about how you can avoid this mess of VC, if you so choose, by telling you a little bit of my story.&quot;</text></comment>