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'''Forty five percent of the 100 largest companies in the United States (by revenue) use GitHub Enterprise to build software.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/11/20/github-vulnerability-security-alerts/|title=GitHub starts alerting developers of security vulnerabilities in dependencies - Help Net Security|date=2017-11-20|work=Help Net Security|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en-US}}</ref>  About $110 million of GitHub's annual revenue, based on a run rate in August 2017, came from GitHub Enterprise.'''<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/github-has-a-110-million-run-rate-from-business-products.html|title=GitHub has turned serious and now books more than $100m a year from businesses|last=Novet|first=Jordan|date=2017-10-11|work=CNBC|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref>
 
'''GitHub Business offers largely the same features as GitHub Enterprise but is hosted by GitHub. It also includes includes SAML single sign-on, and automated provisioning and deprovisioning.<ref name=":1" />'''
 
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On 9 July 2012, [[Peter Levine (venture capitalist)|Peter Levine]], general partner at GitHub's investor [[Andreessen Horowitz]], stated that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly the entire way".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-development/ |title = Software Eats Software Development |date = 2012-07-09 |first = Peter |last = Levine | author-link = Peter Levine (venture capitalist) }}</ref>
 
GitHub, Inc. was originally a [[flat organization]] with no middle managers; in other words, "everyone is a manager" ([[Workers' self-management|self-management]]).<ref name="cto-mgmt-style">{{cite web|url=http://tomayko.com/writings/management-style|title=Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style|last=Tomayko|first=Ryan|date=2 April 2012|accessdate=28 August 2013}}</ref> Employees '''could''' choose to work on projects that interest them ([[open allocation]]). However, salaries '''were''' set by the chief executive.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/github-has-big-dreams-for-open-source-software-and-more/?_r=0|title=Dreams of 'Open' Everything|last=Hardy|first=Quentin|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> By 2014, the company had adopted a traditional management structure.
 
On 16 January 2013, GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/11/code-sharing-site-github-turns-five-and-hits-3-5-million-users-6-million-repositories/ |title = Code-sharing site Github turns five and hits 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories |publisher = TheNextWeb.com |date = 2013-04-11 |accessdate = 2013-04-11 }}</ref> On 23 December 2013, GitHub announced it had reached 10 million repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://github.com/blog/1724-10-million-repositories |title = 10 Million Repositories |publisher = GitHub.com |date = 2013-12-23 |accessdate = 2013-12-28 }}</ref>