Timing and taste
GitHub's cofounder on why GitHub won. Timing and taste resonating with each other.
All four GitHub cofounders had flops before and after GitHub. These ventures had taste, but it wasn't the right time or market.
The other players who started after seeing Git and GitHub's rise in popularity had no taste.
Includes an ouroboros: GitHub rode on the rise of Git, but Linus thinks that GitHub is a reason Git won
...the Ruby people, strange people, started using Git and suddenly it just exploded...