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I'll be around for 30 minutes to answer any questions.
Is your only source of income right now the paid hosted repos? If so, how do you plan to scale that to support a staff of over 100 as well as compete with GitHub and Bitbucket who already have a huge market share?
I'm almost going to bed (it is 10:30pm in San Francisco) but I thought it might be interesting to share some deep links: The marketing team has their OKR embedded in the handbook https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/#okrs If we meet our sales target everyone in the company gets a free dinner https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#sales-target-dinner There is a pretty sweet Kramdown SSG guideline https://about.gitl…
As someone who works remotely, that is something I will be doing as well from here on out :)
Is your only source of income right now the paid hosted repos? If so, how do you plan to scale that to support a staff of over 100 as well as compete with GitHub and Bitbucket who already have a huge market share?
GitLab.com is completely free, public and private repositories, CI and unlimited collaborators. [1]
Pretty interesting that you use "1password (PeopleOps vault)". I guess I never thought about using PW-vaults in a corporate setting. Seems like an interesting approach (compared to some alternatives I know that don't work well).
I'll be around for 30 minutes to answer any questions.
Are you guys focusing on ramping up direct sales yet? Emailed Michael earlier in the year and he said that he's focusing on your reseller program at the moment and to get back to him in August to see where you're at. Still very much on my calendar but I figured it can't hurt to check now if you're offering answers!
I've pointed our CRO (Chad) to your comment to provide further insight.
Is your only source of income right now the paid hosted repos? If so, how do you plan to scale that to support a staff of over 100 as well as compete with GitHub and Bitbucket who already have a huge market share?
They also offer a self-hosted Enterprise Edition for $39 per user per year. I imagine this makes quite a large portion of their income.
Just absolutely fantastic values for work-life balance and certainly makes GitLab look _very_ appealing... Some of my favorites: We're a distributed, remote-only company where people work remote without missing out. For this, we use asynchronous communication and are as open as we can be by communicating through public issues, chat channels, and placing an emphasis on ensuring that conclusions of offline conversation…
GitLab is by far the best company I've worked at and the best company you could work for, as far as I can see. The values that you see in the handbook are really what every single one of my colleagues works and lives by.
People frequently take time off and the team is always supportive, whether it is for a long vacation, personal matters or just to play a newly released videogame. This happens at every level in the organisation.
Asynchronous communication is hard. We were lucky that we've stuck to insisting on doing this well since the very start of GitLab Inc and we're continuously working on making it easier to contribute to documentation and to encourage everyone to do the same.
Interestingly, more and more of my colleagues (and myself included) are moving house to their favorite places to live. Often in other countries. Remote work in itself does not guarantee that you're comfortable enough to make big life changes, you need trust in the company you're working for. I believe that by being transparent, fair and understanding of what makes a good work/life balance, we are slowly achieving to gain that trust.
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Are you guys focusing on ramping up direct sales yet? Emailed Michael earlier in the year and he said that he's focusing on your reseller program at the moment and to get back to him in August to see where you're at. Still very much on my calendar but I figured it can't hurt to check now if you're offering answers!
We have a solid sales team. Michael happens to work with resellers mostly. I've pointed our CRO (Chad) to your comment to provide further insight.
Pretty interesting that you use "1password (PeopleOps vault)". I guess I never thought about using PW-vaults in a corporate setting. Seems like an interesting approach (compared to some alternatives I know that don't work well).