How GitHub (no longer) Works

If you do everything right, and you're successful, and you're lucky, then your startup will grow into a company. At that point, you'll either continue to flourish, or your employees — addled by years of free soda — will take over your meeting room in a fit of caffeinated rage and demand the end of company-wide Strategy Days by holding poor little Timmy from Marketing hostage with figurative red tape crafted from literal red herrings imported from the Baltic Sea.
 
So, you probably want to avoid that.
 
GitHub's gone through many stages of growth over the years, and each of those stages is different from the last. How you run your company at 10 employees is very different from 50 employees, which itself is very different from 250 employees. This talk will cover all the stumbling blocks GitHub hit as the company grew.