#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values

Guest: Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub and CVP of Microsoft In this episode, we cover: Titles at Microsoft and working with CEO Satya Nadella (00:58); Being “85% happy” and the temptation to leave big companies for a startup (05:33); How Thomas went from early user to CEO of GitHub (09:22); Growing up in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall (13:19); Why Thomas quit his job at the height of the financial crisis: “I wanna build stuff again” (22:28); Being acquired by Microsoft and coming to America (27:26); The startup mindset and “open-source” values (34:09); How Github’s “AI programmer,” Copilot, will change everything for developers (40:32); When will generative AI have its “iPhone moment?” (45:44); Exponential change and preparing your kids for the unknown future (50:57); Communicating in English, and whether Thomas’ family would ever go back to Germany (57:21); Tech culture in Europe vs. Silicon Valley and the pressure of “more” (01:01:19); The “LEGO room” in Thomas’ house (01:07:18)