2 years ago

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas was “the Beyoncé of GitHub.” He jokingly crowned himself with that title during his years at that company, where he advocated for open source and a more inclusive community supporting it.

With his former employer, GitHub, serving 4 million developers worldwide, the potential size of that audience is huge.

Beyoncé “has a superfan group, the Beyhive, that will go to bat for her,” Douglas pointed out.

“If you’re a Black employee at GitHub, you have a space and it was very helpful with things like 2020, during George Floyd.