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GitHub CEO: We're helping software eat the world

GitHub CEO Tom Preston-Werner explains GitHub's appeal and what it means to 'optimize for happiness'

By Eric Knorr, InfoWorld, 11/05/12

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If you optimize for happiness, then I propose that profits will follow, because you'll have people motivated to work on the things that they're interested in, the things that will increase the happiness of the customers and the shareholders. As long as the company itself provides a vision that people can relate to, that they think is worth working on, that gives them a purpose to be there. A big part of what we do is try to work on the vision of the company and make sure it's well communicated. That's critical also to the way we work.

Knorr: We've covered a lot here, although I don't think I'm going to get much more out of you as far as your future plans are concerned.

Preston-Werner: Well, I can give you one tiny hint about the future. Before, you were asking what we were going to spend the money on and I said GitHub is just the beginning. The way that we think about the company as a whole is not just about developers, designers, and people writing documentation. The thing that best describes what we do is to make it easier for people to work together than to work alone. That is the crux of what drives the product development of github.com. In the future, things other than just writing code are going to be hard, all the easy problems will have been solved, and if we can apply the things that we know about development to other disciplines, then we can change the world in even bigger ways.

Knorr: Beyond code.

Preston-Werner: That's all I'm going to say about that.

Knorr: Well, that's a tantalizing way to end.

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