The CEO of Github, Thomas Dohmke, speaks on June 12, 2025 at the Vivatech Technology Startup and Innovation Fair in Paris.
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Microsoft's The GitHub unit, which faces a stream of competition by coding tools with AI drive, loses its leader, and the company does not immediately call a successor.
Thomas Dohmke, who has been CEO of Github since 2021, came to Microsoft in 2015 by taking over his previous startup hockey app. Microsoft bought Github 2018 for $ 7.5 billion, and Dohmke moved to this business as a product manager in mid-2021. Months later he replaced Nat Friedman as a Github CEO.
In a memo to the employees on Monday that Dohmke shared as a blog post, he left Github to “become founders”, although he would remain until the end of the year “to lead the transition”.
With Microsoft, CEO Satya Nadella, CEO Satya Nadella, the foundation of the Coreai platform and the tools group under the former Meta -Executive Jay Parikh, in which artificial intelligence and development and development invest tens of billion dollars in the infrastructure and development of artificial intelligence. Github became part of this group.
“Github and his management team will continue his mission as part of the Coreai organization of Microsoft, with further details being shared soon,” Dohmke wrote.
According to a message that Parikh, which was sent to the employees on Monday, the CNBC, will report three top leaders from Github – Vladimir Fedorov, Kyle Daigle and Elizabeth Pemmerl – Microsoft Coreai -executive.
A Github spokesman refused to indicate additional details.
In 2021, Github started under Friedman's leadership in collaboration with Microsoft and Openai Copilot. The offer that could suggest the code to expand their projects was used by a number of customers to make their engineers more productive.
Github claims to have over 150 million registered developers, compared to 73 million in October 2021.
While Github enjoyed a lead in the AI due to its popularity as a code sharing platform, a variety of rapidly growing competitors have emerged in the world of so-called vibe coding, which counts on AI models to quickly produce code for apps and websites. These include cursor creator anysphere, replit and windsurf, whose CEO was commissioned by Google Last month as part of an AI talent contract of 2.4 billion US dollars.
A survey carried out in May and June showed that around 76% of the respondents used the Visual Studio code from Microsoft as a code editor. About 18% stated that they were dependent on the cursor, almost 10% used anthropics Claude code and 5% mentioned windsurf.
Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf were not all in the same section of the last annual survey.
Microsoft still has growth from Copilot. Nadella said last month that 20 million people used it, with the number of Copilot Enterprise customers rose by 75% over the quarter.
“I am more than ever convinced that the world will soon be possible by a billion developers of AI agents, with every human ingenuity being a new gold rush of the software,” Dohmke wrote. “When this day comes, we will know where the way began: with Github.”
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