Julian Donjou

Sorry, I... When did you launch the company?

sorry we launched the company five years ago uh basically so the way we started is that we tried to um solve our own problem uh myself and my co-founder we both are software engineers uh and when we started to work uh on a project on github we were having this kind of issue where

We're trying to automate our work, basically.

I mean, we are lazy.

So the goal was to, you know, having a program that does things for you.

And there was a lot of missing features in that regard on GitHub.

So we're starting that way, trying to automate everything.

And that's actually where we got our first customers.

We both were very active in open source communities.

Name a couple of open source communities that you were in where you got your first customers.

We started with a lot of BG OpenStack projects.

We were working back then at Red Hat, which is a major open source project contributor.

There's a lot of people there working.

So, for example, the Ceph project, which is a distributed storage open source project, started to use Mergeify in their repositories to automate a lot of their work.

And that's basically how we started getting first open source projects and then our first customers.

And Julien, fast forward to today, how many paying customers are you working with?

We have more than 150 customers right now, mostly in the US.

That's really where we find the most companies using GitHub nowadays.

And Julien, so can I take 150 customers times the $750 per month average price point?

It puts you at about $110,000 a month in revenue.