GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke stepped down on Monday after four years with the company.

In a post on LinkedIn , he thanked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and others while announcing he was leaving to get back to his entrepreneurial roots. (GitHub, a platform for software developers to store and share code, is owned by Microsoft ).

"After nearly four years as CEO, I'm leaving GitHub to become a startup founder again," Dohmke wrote on LinkedIn.

While Dohmke didn't elaborate on his future entrepreneurial plans, he did explain more about why he is leaving the day-to-day corporate world for entrepreneurship in a blog post .

"Over a decade ago, my family and I made the leap to move from Germany to the United States after the sale of my startup to Microsoft," he wrote. "After all this time,

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