US EditionGitHub Will Be Folded Into Microsoft Proper as CEO Steps Down
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AUG 11 – Thomas Dohmke is leaving GitHub after nearly four years as CEO to return to startup founding amid Microsoft integrating GitHub fully into its CoreAI team.
- On Monday, Thomas Dohmke revealed that he will step down as GitHub's CEO but plans to stay with the company until the end of the year to assist with the leadership transition.
- After leading GitHub’s significant AI initiatives through Copilot amid increasing competition from AI coding tools like Google and Cursor, Thomas Dohmke announced he would step down to start a new company.
- GitHub, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion, hosts over 150 million developers and more than one billion repositories and forks as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI group formed under EVP Jay Parikh.
- Dohmke highlighted GitHub's current strength, noting that Copilot now has 20 million users and that paid subscriptions for the tool contributed to 40% of the company's revenue growth that year.
- Microsoft will not replace Dohmke directly, with GitHub leadership now reporting to multiple Microsoft executives while continuing investment in AI platforms in line with CEO Nadella’s vision.
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GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke said on Monday he will leave the Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform to launch a new startup, capping a tenure that included a major push into artificial intelligence through the company's Copilot products.Dohmke, who moved to the U.S. from Germany more than a decade ago
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