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• Whenever there’s any kind of a crisis in productivity or motivation, what it comes down to, is, there is a conversation that needs to be had that someone isn’t having.
• But that is really what Git needed in order to be successful, a common place that key people could agree on to put their code to share, because in a completely distributed world where nobody knows where anything else is, you can’t get anything done; you have to have some agreed-upon collaboration point. So the idea, at first, was “Let’s just create...
• So why turn down 300K from Microsoft? Well, the decision came down to what do I want to do with my life and what is most valuable? Is it more valuable to be comfortable and make some really good money, pretty much guaranteed, but do something that is not so thrilling, or go out on a limb and build something for myself on my own terms that is relian...
• think the main thing was just being in San Francisco and knowing a really good group of Ruby people that could then come on board and say, “Hey, this really is worthwhile,” and now any of the contributors to those projects or people who were following those projects saw that happening and asked, “What is this GitHub thing? Let me go check it out,” ...
• I think that’s essential and anyone starting an Internet company needs to have someone who is a designer. That is why a lot of these websites are terrible, because they have a couple of programmers and none of them have ever done any graphic design or usability or UX in their lives and they are not familiar with those concepts or are not thinking a...