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This is your periodic reminder that Github is growing at ~14x (1400%!) annually. This would be incredible growth for a young, unprofitable, VC-funded startup, even Uber never achieved more than ~3x AFAIK. For a widely-established company that was already very well known and a market leader in its niche for many years? Absolutely unprecedented.

This is a conservative estimate assuming linear growth, the actual number is likely going to be higher. Much higher.

It's not too hard to grow 14X YoY if you start from a hundred customers. If you have hundreds of millions? Yeah, not so easy.

[1] https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Growing what exactly. Seems like a spam issue or some sort of automatic circular commit chain between alot of projects.