It&#x27;s interesting to see how people react to this, in the context of the reactions to their first VC raise of 100 million dollars -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4220353" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4220353</a><p>e.g. &quot;They want to do bigger and better things with Github. They&#x27;re not quite done trying to change the world. Now they are not only profitable, but they have substantial capital to invest in further innovations.&quot;<p>and &quot;I bet nobody here as anything bad to say about the exceptional skills of the github team. However such a huge investment may force them to &quot;overscale&quot; in order to be able to reach the expected return (by the VC).&quot;