Pluralsight + GitPrime: We help developers skill up, GitPrime shows them it’s working

What a week. When I reflect on my time as co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight, there are countless milestones that will forever be etched in my memory. The first course we published online. When we closed our funding rounds. When Pluralsight LIVE, our user conference, kicked off its first year. Going public last spring.

But there’s nothing quite like it when you get to know another company, its founders and its incredible team members, and realize that their mission and values are so closely aligned with your own. That’s exactly what happened with GitPrime, which we announced we’re acquiring earlier this week.

As I spent time with GitPrime’s co-founders Travis Kimmel and Ben Thompson over the last several months, it made the acquisition decision crystal clear. I’m a developer. Travis is a developer. I founded Pluralsight to teach technology skills and democratize those increasingly important skills. Travis founded GitPrime to give engineers an objective feedback loop for their workflows and to help them communicate effectively with management.

Both platforms were created with a developer-first mindset. I respect not only what they’ve built but how they’ve built it. They’ve created a world-class product while growing a team of passionate, mission-driven people.

I spend more time thinking about our team members than people might think I would as CEO. They’re at the core of everything I do. Every decision I make. Joining these two companies together gives even more meaning and purpose to our teams. We’re a group of people who are obsessed with helping engineering teams improve their work, and closing the gap between skills and productivity is a huge step forward for that.

That’s what we’re building with GitPrime. We’re giving leaders the opportunity to upskill their teams with Pluralsight, and then see those skills in action with GitPrime. Together, we’re creating an entirely new way to measure and improve developer productivity and performance. And I can’t wait to see how our customers leverage our collective capabilities to drive innovation for their organizations.

Welcome, GitPrime!