GitHub CEO: We want to lower the barriers to entry for new developers

GitHub, a start-up company headquartered in San Francisco, has been making headlines, for all the right reasons, ever since it came into existence.

Founded in 2008, it has 11.1 million registered users till date who are collaborating across 27.7 million repositories. It raised $100 million Series A round in 2012 from Andreessen Horowitz, a $4 billion venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and raised another $250 million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital.

Building software with a team is quite cumbersome, as it requires careful monitoring of who is working on piece of code and when, making it difficult to integrate code from outside contributors. GitHub takes care of all this and simplifies developing software.

"We're really inspired by crappy tools," says GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, in conversation with Business Insider. "We were competing against the old ways of doing things."

It makes use of Git, a free software invented in 2005, to help development teams track who contributed what code, when. As it is an online platform, software developers from around the world can use GitHub to work on projects together. Simply put, GitHub is where people build software.

The company now hopes to clear the way for anybody to get started on the platform. Wanstrath wants GitHub to be the service of choice for the next generation to really get their feet wet, Business Insider reported.

"We're thinking about the new developers," Wanstrath says. "We want to lower the barriers to entry."