Investing in GitHub

Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.

"Why? Because we want to be better."<p>This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.

<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353</a> for discussion

Lame. GitHub should have written that they were using Andreessen Horowitz for their money. Without the $100MM would they have written that post, say, if Andreessen was joining their board? Fact is, they're fawning.

The following isn't meant to harm or critizise anyone, but isn't such kind of outside investment more about changing your now worthy company stack against some more handy dollar notes? If a company just needs cash for profitable ideas they could get a loan, right? So if that's the case why would people say differently in their blog?<p>Well, anyway I'm happy that Github is doing fine.

A16Z betting on Enterprise-tization of SaaS.<p>I.e. second leg of the current trend, when successful SaaS companies will offer products, which can be install on-premises.<p>In case of github it's Github for Your Firewall.

Congrats GH! Sounds like a good match. Excited to see how it plays out.