{"id":48875,"date":"2025-08-12T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48875"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:24:56","slug":"github-ceo-resigns-not-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/github-ceo-resigns-not-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub CEO Resigns, Not Replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/news-insights\/company-news\/goodbye-github\/\">Thomas Dohmke<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ashtom\/status\/1954920157853172064\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/news-insights\/company-news\/goodbye-github\/\">\n<p>From building mobile developer tools, to running the acquisition of GitHub alongside Nat Friedman, to becoming GitHub&rsquo;s CEO and guiding us into the age of Copilot and AI, it has been the ride of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Still, after all this time, my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I&rsquo;ve decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again. GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft&rsquo;s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/757461\/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition\">Tom Warren<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=44865560\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/757461\/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition\"><p>GitHub has operated as a separate company ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/26\/17954714\/microsoft-github-deal-acquisition-complete\">since Microsoft acquired it<\/a> in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke&rsquo;s departure is part of a big shakeup to the way GitHub operates. Microsoft isn&rsquo;t replacing Dohmke&rsquo;s CEO position, and the rest of GitHub&rsquo;s leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft&rsquo;s CoreAI team.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>GitHub no longer has a single leader, or CEO, and responsibility for GitHub will align more closely to the CoreAI leadership team. GitHub&rsquo;s reporting structure originally changed in 2021 when former CEO Nat Friedman stepped down, and Dohmke reported up to Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft&rsquo;s developer division. Liuson then started reporting to Parikh earlier this year with the formation of the CoreAI team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/microsoft-acquires-github\/\">Microsoft Acquires GitHub<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Dohmke (tweet): From building mobile developer tools, to running the acquisition of GitHub alongside Nat Friedman, to becoming GitHub&rsquo;s CEO and guiding us into the age of Copilot and AI, it has been the ride of a lifetime. Still, after all this time, my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I&rsquo;ve decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-12T19:24:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"facf5235-97ff-440a-a849-c1dbe64b18e2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-12T19:24:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-s9SNZf_RAqoScHb5ksY4g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,101,524,2091,37,96],"class_list":["post-48875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-github","tag-github-copilot","tag-microsoft","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48876,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48875\/revisions\/48876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}