Founder Real Talk

Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab Inc., on Using Open-Source for Transparency and Remote Work

Aug 11, 2022

30:50

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Is Open Source Linked to Your Product?

02:41

How Much Time Do You Spend Thinking About Competition?

02:39

Transparency in the Start Up Industry?

01:34

Introduction

2min

How Did You Get Into Gitlab Development?

2min

What's Your First Time as C O?

2min

The One Devops Platform

2min

How Remote Is Better Than Hybred?

2min

How to Maintain a Culture at a Large Company?

2min

What's the Most Important Thing About Being Transparent?

4min

Transparency in the Start Up Industry?

2min

Is Open Source Linked to Your Product?

3min

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How Much Time Do You Spend Thinking About Competition?

3min

11.

How Do You Manage Complexity?

2min

12.

Get Lab - Is That a Trend?

2min

13.

What's Next for GitLab?

2min

14.

G GV Capital - Utility at Scale

3min

Sid Sijbrandij is the CEO of GitLab Inc., the one DevOps platform that allows teams to collaborate, create, and deliver software in a single application. Before founding GitLab Inc. in 2012, he worked on recreational submarines and taught himself to code, going on to work at the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, where he did version control software around lawmaking. GitLab Inc. was founded on Sid’s love of programming and a desire to create an open-core company. Fully remote from day one, GitLab Inc. is one of the largest companies to operate this way, with more than 1,700 employees across 65 countries. In this episode, Sid talks about open source, his community, and company transparency, along with the GitLab Inc.’s recent IPO—and what it means for the future.