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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by peterwwillis »

sieabahlpark wrote: post #2

I don't see how it's worth that much unless their plan is to strip all features from gitlab community or expect a Google acquisition.

Oh it'll get acquired eventually, the question is when, and at what price, and by whom? How valuable is a Github competitor if nobody's leaving Github to use it? I don't see Google being interested; they know it won't make any money but from corporate users, and corporate users don't take Google Cloud seriously. Someone like Atlassian might be interested if they didn't already have 5 CI/CD solutions.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by COMMENT___ »

pm90 wrote: post #37

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored. Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many thin…

Could you please tell more about your experience with GitLab vs GitHub support team? What kind of problems did they help (or did not help) solve?

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by ecbrinkman »

boldslogan wrote: post #4

A cool part from the article >> part of a shadow program in which employees spend two weeks sitting in on their CEO’s meetings, feedback sessions and media or analyst calls Does anyone know of companies that do this "internship" / shadowing / mentoring built into the company?

Thanks for highlighting this! I was lucky enough to get to be the shadow this week, and it's been an incredible experience.

The program is outlined in our handbook if you want to find out more info: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/shadow/

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by wolco »

snarf21 wrote: post #8
dpflan wrote: post #6

I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

Microsoft bought Github for $7.5B so it gives them a great comparable.

Wouldn't that put them at 40% of github's value. Giving that github's brand is more valuable this is pie-in-the-sky vc math. Ready to be ipoed and written down to a 1/10 of the value in 2 years.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by onion2k »

psv1 wrote: post #50
s_dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Not a dig at you because I understand that you're using Apple simply as an example of a big company, but Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous.

Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous

That would mean Apple did something to positively invest in their developer ecosystem which would certainly be very unusual.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by qaq »

psv1 wrote: post #50
s_dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Not a dig at you because I understand that you're using Apple simply as an example of a big company, but Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous.

If Apple cares about their dev. ecosystem buying Gitlab would be pretty solid investment.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by nwellnhof »

jl-gitlab wrote: post #32
Townley wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to say it's the freedom to self-host, but really it's the CI. Throwing a .gitlab-ci.yml file into my repo is by far the easiest way to get CI/CD incorporated into a product. The configuration of test runners (or lack thereof) is both a breeze and extremely powerful. I'm not even talking about the auto-devops thing that I haven't tried; writing your own gitlab-ci file worked in frictionless ways that CircleCI,…

PM for CI/CD here, thanks so much for your feedback! As much as I'm excited about how much you love the product, we can always do better and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Ping me any time (@jlenny) on any issues that are important to you that would make things better.

Do you have any plans to support matrix builds? I know that they can be emulated with anchors but Travis CI's matrix feature seems a lot nicer.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by hobofan »

pm90 wrote: post #37

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored. Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many thin…

> instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough)

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by thanatropism »

mcv wrote: post #43
barkerja wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not currently using Gitlab anymore, but in the past, it was their CI that won me over. I was always felt left wanting more though because there wasn't a true sense of community/explore. If there's one thing I value most about Github today it's the ability to easily discover new projects and human beings; and Github helps tremendously with that whereas Gitlab I feel like you end up fighting the system to discover…

You make Github sound like a social network. A good one, I mean.

I've seen some non-technical job applications that have an entry for a Github username.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by neuland »

cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

We use GitLab because you can self-host it. GitHub is not an option for us, because we must maintain control of our data and source code. So GitHub was never really an option.

But we'd likely be using GitLab even if we didn't have this limitation. There's a bunch of features that make GitLab better for our specific team / situation. From my personal experience, GitLab CI is better than CI options available on GitHub. We use gitflow (ie. feature branches in the same repo), rather than pull requests. And it seems like GitLab supports this flow well.

I also tend to like GitLab issues much better than GitHub. The time tracking feature in EE is really useful (not sure if GitHub uses this). And issue boards across projects is also a very popular thing where I'm at, because we have lots of repos, rather than fewer big ones.

We also heavily use the deployment / environment features and built-in prometheus.

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