We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google

&gt; Not one high level person I spoke to during negotiations is still at Google today.<p>The whole Google culture and value has always been the same since Day one. And yet they somehow managed to convince majority of the public about how good they are for at least 10 - 15 years.<p>&gt;Anecdotally, I&#x27;m not a huge fan of MS products (but no hater either), but Microsoft devs seem to love their work way more than Google devs, in my network.<p>That pretty much summarise the different between Microsoft and Google. The story is like Google&#x27;s value and culture was founded upon the hatred of Microsoft. When Microsoft was <i>supposed</i> to be evil.

At its core, Microsoft is a business software company: they live and die by big businesses being willing to pay for their software and services. Meanwhile, google lives and dies by advertising. They’ve attempted to diversify into other revenue streams, but nothing else can compete.

I remember reading that Diane Greene, then CEO of GCP ,was keen to buy GitHub, but Sundar didn&#x27;t see the point of owning it. Sundar&#x27;s argument was supposedly, owning GitHub wouldn&#x27;t improve the market share of GCP.<p>Yes, Google was part of the negotiations to purchase GitHub, but there wasn&#x27;t full commitment for the alphabet CEO.

The title poorly conveys the tweet. &quot;And people ask me why we didn&#x27;t sell GitHub to Google. Seriously?&quot; would be a little better.

This reputation can&#x27;t be good and coming from someone like him is quite damning.<p>Google&#x27;s rep for short lived projects and it&#x27;s ecosystem. Are they even wanting to shake this perception or maybe it&#x27;s a none issue for them?

Makes me nervous to dive into the Google ecosystem