text stringlengths 0 1.22k |
|---|
Of course, he's always been celebrating the independent companies, so it makes sense that he would have that angle at it. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[32:07\] If I could peek into the books of GitHub, I wonder what were their biggest loss leaders. Where did the loss that was described in those articles, like 66 million in the first three quarters of 2016 -- they lost a lot of money... Like, what was that loss? What attributed to that loss? Was i... |
**Jerod Santo:** I would have to guess labor and customer acquisition, perhaps... And by that, I'm specifically speaking of enterprise sales, because GitHub's already been very good at acquiring open source indies like us; they have the whole open source market. But their real bread and butter in terms of income is Git... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Just going back to DHH, I think he's always said Basecamp is big enough, right? And whatever that "big enough" is subjective to their desires for big enough... And I think maybe his perspective is like, you know, the independence of GitHub - could they have gone another way? Maybe... To stay indepen... |
**Jerod Santo:** Well, while we're on Basecamp, Jason Fried actually predicted this sale on Twitter back in February 2014. He said "Prediction - if GitHub ends up selling itself one day, Microsoft will be the buyer." That's a pretty solid prediction right there. That's four years ago. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm gonna take some advice from Jason from now on. \[laughter\] My next move is calling Jason. |
**Jerod Santo:** I've always appreciated him, but I read that because I think somebody retweeted that... And I was like "I'm not following this guy on Twitter yet... I'm gonna follow him just based on that." So I actually hit the Follow button for the first time on Jason Fried today. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Wow, congratulations. |
**Jerod Santo:** I'm gonna follow some of his advice too, because that's a pretty good prediction. Well, closing thoughts... We've been rambling on here for a bit, but there's lots to say, and... Just even evolving opinions - as we talk about it and think about it more, I even just change the way I feel over time, so..... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[34:44\] Obviously, you're gonna have the people that just up and leave. That's gonna happen. But I would actually just encourage the community to just chill out and wait and see. What's it gonna hurt? If the move is that easy, why create such a ruckus? Let's give them a chance, let's give them som... |
**Jerod Santo:** Always. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I'd say just be patient. Always, yeah. |
**Jerod Santo:** Always skeptical. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I would just encourage people to be a little patient, to give them a chance to make it right before they say they're gonna make it wrong. And it may not be an independent GitHub -- I'll agree with DHH, that era is over. But does that mean that what GitHub was or could be is over? |
**Jerod Santo:** Closing community reaction... React Podcast host Michael Jackson - he says "Honestly, it makes a ton of sense for Microsoft to buy GitHub. After this acquisition, Microsoft will control VS Code, TypeScript, Electron and GitHub. This puts them pretty much front and center of the modern development stack... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** It's almost like saying "Is that black hole that bad?" Because if you're gonna get sucked into it no matter what, resistance is futile. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] That's right. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I hate to end note, though... |
**Jerod Santo:** Resistance is futile! |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I mean... If they control a lot of it, then... But if it's for the betterment... That's what remains to be seen. We will see. I will end by saying I remain optimistic; I wanna see the bright side, because that's my nature. Given our exploration of Microsoft over the years, that's how I can have that... |
**Jerod Santo:** Our naysayers will say "That's because you've been assimilated", Adam. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, boy... I've been brain-washed. |
**Jerod Santo:** Resistance is futile, and you've been assimilated. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** You give somebody a little peek behind the curtain, they start liking what's back there... |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** We'll see. |
**Jerod Santo:** We shall see. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.