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I think, in order to be great
you have to have
enough room to fail as well.
And that is what makes GitHub special.
[GitHub Films Presents]
[Inside GitHub: An Octocat Series]
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[Episode 1 "Freedom"]
"Think of the structure of GitHub like a big open source project.
People self-select the things that are the most interesting to them."
"We want you to be fulfilled and enjoying your job. That is how you stay healthy,
motivated and creative, and that is how the company stays awesome."
[Tom Preston-Werner, CEO] I think the concept of freedom is
what's most important to
keeping a company great.
The culture of the company
really came from us.
We wanted a place
that we wanted to work.
I don't need to babysit you,
[PJ Hyett, COO] you don't need to babysit me.
These are the things that we want
to accomplish as a team.
Ask me for help, I'll help you
whatever, but ultimately
it's up to the individual
to just do the things they want to do.
We wanted to make a company that
would let people like that thrive.
[Scott Chacon, CIO] And so, everything that we've designed
has tried to focus on that,
making sure that you are happy,
and stress-free,
and creative,
and productive,
because that's the person
we want working on
GitHub products.
Growing up really, going through school,
and seeing other companies
put together,
they're all look so similar,
and they're all really kind of
sad in the way that you work there, right?
You're told what to do,
you have assignments,
you don't get to move around
to various tasks,
you don't get to have a lot of say
in a lot of things.
We like the freedom
of open source
that there wasn't really
anyone around saying,
"You have to work on this."
And then you had to work on that.
Really, you chose the things that were
important to you,
the things that you liked.
It's about caring about what we do,
and working with people that we consider
friends,
and working on things that
we find interesting.
not about making as much money
as possible.
To me that's not really very interesting.
So we wondered,
'Could you build a company this way?'
And so we've taken that
sort of just nugget of truth
in the beginning,
and hired people that we knew
were capable of working
in that capacity.
Overall, we like the autonomy
that we give people.
We think it creates phenomenal work.
We don't think that there's
a more productive environment
than giving people the freedom
to succeed or fail on their own.
The type of people that we hire are
very self-driven.
They're experienced at what they do,
they don't need a lot of direction.
You have to have people
that can take that freedom
and turn it into something great
instead of just wasting it.
We're telling people,
"This is a way you can work."
"And this is a ways that works for us."
How can we make the happiest workforce,
the happiest group of people that
have worked at a company?
It's this amazing feedback loop
that makes me so happy
to be a part of this,
to have helped build
this company and this product.
We're doing things in a different way,
and I think this different way
might actually work for you as well.
People have a great time
and that leads to better
work on projects.
It's all for the betterment of the product
and for our users.
It's not about eking the last dime
out of a customer,
it's about coming up with the future
of software, and the future of
working better together.
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