GitLab Strategy
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GitLab Strategy
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Re: GitLab Strategy
#22020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
Re: GitLab Strategy
#3Inspiring how open Gitlab is in how they run things.
Their handbook is a fantastic resource for distributed companies (but also for non-distributed companies).
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
e.g. here is how they do CEO shadowing:
Re: GitLab Strategy
#42020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
Under Principles:
Independence: since we took financing we need to have a liquidity event; to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired.
At any rate, even if it happens, GitLab CE is open source, which can't be said for some of their competition.
Re: GitLab Strategy
#5Funnily enough paying their employees somewhat competitive market rate still isn’t on there.
Re: GitLab Strategy
#6Every time a GitLab's competitor is in the news we get flooded with HN submissions about GitLab. That can't be a good PR strategy.
Re: GitLab Strategy
#7Funnily enough paying their employees somewhat competitive market rate still isn’t on there.
This still puzzles me since most other remote companies of similar size and shapes offer much better compensation than Gitlab.
Re: GitLab Strategy
#8Every time a GitLab's competitor is in the news we get flooded with HN submissions about GitLab. That can't be a good PR strategy.
Just curious, which one of their competitors is in the news?