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GitHub is still remote first. It started as remote first initially and it was actually one of the few companies that even before co truly remote first and as I understand even today it's first. So the three founders they actually met in San Francisco. So you could argue that very very early phase was three people in a same place and that's often how that goes. But yeah, very quickly GitHub started hiring super fans. People that were interested in GitHub, promoting GitHub, helped drive in the community. Those people got hired into GitHub and they were naturally everywhere in the world. And so very quickly GitHub moved from a culture that was headquartered to a remote culture and that gave us an advantage when the corona pandemic came because we were already used on being on video calls on using Slack. I think GitHub is very different than Microsoft when it comes to how the company communicates. When I wake up in the morning on the GitHub side, I have lots of Slack messages, DMs, channels to look into. The Microsoft side is the other way around. I have dozens of emails that I need to pay attention to and maybe a few teams messages. And so I think that shows the async part of our culture that has grown over the last 17 years and that is so important. At GitHub, we are using GitHub for everything. And so all employees across all the functions not just engineering and product but HR and coms and finance all the functions work on GitHub. And so they have repositories to describe their team. They're using pull requests to make changes for example to our terms of service or every companywide announcement is a pull request against the repository that we call the hub that gets published as a geta pages page that is only internally accessible and that goes through our identity provider. And so even there we don't do companywide emails almost never we do an announcement on the hub and then there's a link that is posted in the slack channel that everybody can see and then we take the conversation there. So yeah today we are very much a remote first company with people all around the world in different time zones.