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GitHub (entreprise)

American software corporation
Organization business Q28771536

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
business, enterprise[7]
Official website
github.com[16]
Legal form
corporation[22]

Status and dates

Inception
February 2008[14]

Location

Headquarters location
San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco[11]
Country
United States[6]

Industry and activity

Industry
business software industry[13]
Product or material produced
GitHub, Electron, Atom, GitHub Pages, GitHub Copilot[17][18][19][20][21]

People

Founder
Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath[8][9]
Chief executive officer
Nat Friedman, Thomas Dohmke[12]

Relations

Member of
Linux Foundation, CVE Numbering Authority, OpenJS Foundation, Digital Public Goods Alliance[2][3][4][5]
Owner of
GitHub[23]
Parent organization or unit
Microsoft[15]
More facts +5
Different from
GitHub[24]
Estimated value
+2000000000[26]
Named after
GitHub[10]
Public key fingerprint
495D 2EB6 CD8B F2C0 C308 E373 315C B025 EBA3 14E6[25]
Social media followers
2.5M (1.9M–2.5M, n=4)[27][28][29][30]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 21
App Store developer ID
429758986
Comparably company ID
github
Crunchbase organization ID
github
Domain name
github.com
EU Transparency Register ID
487494149616-50, 976086229629-90
Freebase ID
/m/0ryppmg
Glassdoor company ID
671945
Google Play developer ID
GitHub
ITU/ISO/IEC object ID
1.3.6.1.4.1.43558
Instagram username
github
LinkedIn company or organization ID
github
Official blog URL
github.blog
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Official jobs URL
github.com
Official shop URL
thegithubshop.com
OpenCorporates ID
us_de/5157550
OpenStreetMap node ID
2240869175
PermID
5037097726
Private Enterprise Number
43558
TikTok username
github
Twitch username
github
X (Twitter) username
github

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Summary

GitHub (entreprise) is a business[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . lobbyfacts.eu. lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . Fortune.com unicorn list. Retrieved . fortune.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . Fortune.com unicorn list. Retrieved . fortune.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [2] ↑ . linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved . linuxfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . cve.mitre.org. Retrieved . cve.mitre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . openjsf.org. Retrieved . openjsf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . news.microsoft.com. news.microsoft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Crunchbase. crunchbase.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . OpenCorporates. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . bounty.github.com. Retrieved . bounty.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Fortune.com unicorn list. Retrieved . fortune.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +2008-02-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → business, enterprise
    Chief executive officer → Nat Friedman, Thomas Dohmke
    Estimated value → {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+2000000000'}
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