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Use indefinite article 'an' vs 'a' #14

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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Tom Preston-Werner dreamed up GitHub and roped Chris Wanstrath into the project

At first, GitHub was a side project. Wanstrath and Preston-Werner would meet on Saturdays to brainstorm, while coding during their free time and working their day jobs. �GitHub wasn�t supposed to be a startup or a company. GitHub was just a tool that we needed,� Wanstrath says. But � inspired by Gmail � they made the project a private beta and opened it up to others. Soon it caught on with the outside world.

By January of 2008, Hyett was on board. And three months after that night in the sports bar, Wanstrath got a message from Geoffrey Grosenbach, the founder of PeepCode, a online learning site that had started using GitHub. �I�m hosting my company�s code here,� Grosenbach said. �I don�t feel comfortable not-paying you guys. Can I just send a check?�
By January of 2008, Hyett was on board. And three months after that night in the sports bar, Wanstrath got a message from Geoffrey Grosenbach, the founder of PeepCode, an online learning site that had started using GitHub. �I�m hosting my company�s code here,� Grosenbach said. �I don�t feel comfortable not-paying you guys. Can I just send a check?�

It was the first of many. In July 2008, Microsoft acquired Powerset, the startup that was providing Preston-Werner with a day job. The software giant offered Preston-Werner a $300,000 bonus and stock options to stay on board for another three years. But he quit, betting everything on GitHub.

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