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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 emilycook »

jacquesm wrote: post #21
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, with GitHub's price being 7.5 billion, it's not outrageous as one of their leading competitors. I also was feeling like a Google acquisition wasn't impossible, they did move their entire platform to Google Cloud recently. Microsoft and Google seem on pretty good terms lately, but right now, a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform. I could see a day where Google says t…

I'd love for Gitlab to stay independent. Of course that is risky and who am I to deny the founders a billion dollar windfall but I feel that such critical resources should not be acquired by the likes of Google, Amazon or Microsoft who already have much more power than they should have.

Hi! GitLab employee, our plan is to go public by 2020 [1][2]. I trust Sid our CEO to stay transparent about this (worked with him personally, this isn't just blind company loyalty lol), and he does a company-wide AMA very frequently where he talks about going public. So I think we will stay independent, or at least won't get acquired easily.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#goals

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

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Post by dsumenkovic »

COMMENT___ wrote: post #52
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?

Hi! GitLab employee here. While someone else from the community provides the feedback, I'd like to highlight what our support team can provide.

> GitLab offers a variety of support options for all customers and users on both paid and free tiers. You should be able to find help using the resources linked below, regardless of how you use GitLab.

https://about.gitlab.com/support/

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

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Post by tyingq »

aeonflux wrote: post #45
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…

I can totally relate to that. In flood of notifications I missed information about expiring CC. Instead of somehow soft-locking the account they just downgraded it and all my integrations, hooks and god knows what just blowed. I managed to fix the CC in 5 minutes, but many months after I am still recovering from that disaster. Support replied that they did send warning so I should just FO.

That's a terrible process. As you say, a "soft lock" of some kind is the obvious fix. They are basically encouraging you to jump ship because at that point, it's a similar effort to move to another vendor.

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

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Post by jniedrauer »

ksec wrote: post #98
madamelic wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporate usage. GitHub is the standard so pretty much everyone has a GitHub account, companies ask for GitHub accounts on applications, it's the hub currently. GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network.

>GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network. I could agree on features, but not UX. Github is still the king.

The github pull request UI is severely lacking. Even something as simple as being able to see changes that address PR comments is surprisingly difficult.

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

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Post by lucideer »

petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

Search friendliness.

Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of "marketing site" for developers.

Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.

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

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Post by trumbitta2 »

sancha_ wrote: post #95
bamboozled wrote: post #70

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https://enterprise.github.com/faq

I believe self-hosting is a pretty new option. Gitlab always had it afaik.

Self-hosted GitHub enterprise exists since like 5 years ago.

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

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Post by dubcanada »

snarf21 wrote: post #88
0xffff2 wrote: post #74

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Github also has on prem offerings.

I stand corrected. Historically they didn't.

GitHub was on prem before gitlab was even a ruby application.

Not sure what you mean exactly.

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

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Post by dsumenkovic »

ksec wrote: post #98
madamelic wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporate usage. GitHub is the standard so pretty much everyone has a GitHub account, companies ask for GitHub accounts on applications, it's the hub currently. GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network.

>GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network. I could agree on features, but not UX. Github is still the king.

I'd like to share more data on the UX front. There are two efforts underway to establish the experience baselines [1] as well as a common design system [2]

Hopefully these efforts allow us to look at our UX holistically, and to focus on making high-quality components that are used throughout the product.

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/experience-...

[2] - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/pajamas-des...

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

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Post by jacquesm »

emilycook wrote: post #101
jacquesm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love for Gitlab to stay independent. Of course that is risky and who am I to deny the founders a billion dollar windfall but I feel that such critical resources should not be acquired by the likes of Google, Amazon or Microsoft who already have much more power than they should have.

Hi! GitLab employee, our plan is to go public by 2020 [1][2]. I trust Sid our CEO to stay transparent about this (worked with him personally, this isn't just blind company loyalty lol), and he does a company-wide AMA very frequently where he talks about going public. So I think we will stay independent, or at least won't get acquired easily. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/ [2] https://ab…

Hi Emily, I've been following the Gitlab saga from reasonably close by (I'm Dutch), if and when you go public you can count on me buying a substantial number of shares just to put my Euros where my mouth is. Best of luck to all of you.
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