[hobofan]

AFAIK the timeline of profitability is somewhat like this:

- really profitable after introducing private repos - burning quite some money for growth after they took VC money - really profitable again after they changed their pricing to per-seat pricing

[aaron-lebo]

They lost 66 million as recently as 2016.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574

[hobofan]

They introduced the new pricing in the middle of 2016[0].

[0]: https://blog.github.com/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-pri...