[kyt]

The reason why this environment works at GitHub is because they're profitable -- extremely so. Money rolls in regardless of what their engineers are working on. If they were in a pre-revenue state I doubt they would be organized in the same way.

[jbarnette]

GitHub has been organized this way since it was in a pre-revenue state.

[kyt]

This is a misleading statement. According to Chris' founder story, they had customers at launch and he was the sole programmer.