Business and technology also thrive on the idea of an interlocked community that together functions as a system.
The PC ecosystem sprang up to combine hardware and software together to meet a broad variety of needs.
Now the Salesforce AppExhange is the worlds largest marketplace for business applications with millions of downloads every year.
The benefits of doing so are clear.
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At the same time, Salesforces own valuation has swelled to $116 billion.
Enter GitHub
Today, GitHub is the hub for collaboration and communication around software development.
GitHub is already an ecosystem, and a successful one at that.
Is GitHub the next ecosystem success story?
In a word, yes.
At my company, we bet on GitHub as a successful platform to build upon from the very start.
GitHub is where that code is built and collaborated on.
GitHub has won the allegiance and preference of developers.
With over 38 million developers, it is by far the largest community of developers in the world.
The GitHub community is thriving and diverse, and it engages developers on both a personal and professional level.
It is widely accepted astheopen source platform to collaborate with contributors.
If you are building a project with a community around it you should be doing this on GitHub.
GitHub continues to be the place for software development of any kind.
Within GitHub is the room to help brand new start-ups materialized and big businesses boom, much like Salesforce.
This makes GitHub an attractive platform to build on top of.
This aspect of saving room for differentiation and added-value from third-parties is not insignificant.
Such a free market environment creates huge opportunities.
There is room for multiple solutions.
GitHub is not a top-down dominated or winner take all environment.
It is a thriving, healthy ecosystem.
Software, software, software
Finally, software is continuing to eat the world.
The increasing value and demand for software continues at an unrelenting pace.
GitHub will become more of an operational concern and not just a developer tool.
This parallels Salesforce, where it is not just a CRM for the sales team.
Similarly, GitHub will become a critical part of how every company operates.
It will become a core part of a customers business.
By extension, this makes the total addressable market of GitHub huge.
Any ecosystem that has these three factors can be big.
ZenHub helps development teams build better software faster.
It was here that Aaron formed ZenHub.
