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Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:27 Jason Lemkin And I just, in an age of uncertainty, I don't want to bet that the ones that are down, I mean, GitLab's a great company.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:03 Jason Lemkin You know, it's not fair because I mean, HubSpot and GitLab are the only candidates I can think of where there's just not enough boomerang people.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:26 unnamed speaker So I look at the bottom six, the bottom six, I have GitLab, Atlassian, Adobe, Monday, Bill, and HubSpot.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:46 Jason Calacanis GitLab is arguably being maimed.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Teams at GitLab, at SendGrid. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Scott Williamson I think GitLab did this well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:36 Scott Williamson You're dead in the water if you can't write clearly at GitLab, so it was testing all those things at once. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:15 Scott Williamson At GitLab, we had these things at my level for the whole product line. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:45 Scott Williamson I'll use GitLab as an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:36 Scott Williamson Uh, the one I did at GitLab for the whole product was probably a couple pages.
- ▶ 26:37 Scott Williamson At least that's how we ran it in Sengri and GitLab.
- ▶ 29:37 Scott Williamson If you ask product managers in SendGrid or GitLab, they probably chuckle about having to have gone through this.
- ▶ 42:17 Scott Williamson Like if you're an ops team at GitLab, you should know what those platform engineers want, how they work, what makes them tick with their problems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:29 Scott Williamson As an example, this opportunity, let's say you're a product manager in the ops area of GitLab.
- ▶ 46:43 Scott Williamson We, we had a VP of design at both Singer and GitLab. 3 times in the scene
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:00 Sam Corcos This came from a conversation we had with Darren Murph from GitLab, and they have a different philosophy on this, but he had a statement that really caused me to rethink this whole concept of title.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:52 Harry Stebbings You have your Git Labs and your Zapiers, and I've seen, like, a lot of people on Twitter be like, ah, Keith, you're so wrong on this one, and so I'm gonna get in trouble if I don't ask it. 4 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:22 Guillermo Rauch Like the reason that GitLab, Mongo, Hashi, you know, a lot of these companies are successful.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings We see Acorns, we see GitLab, and the world of growth, it's a new world, so how did you make your way into the world of growth and come to lead some incredible growth orgs at Acorns and GitLab most recently? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04 Hila Qu And most recently I joined GitLab building their growth team from scratch as well.
- ▶ 14:57 Hila Qu I built a B to B growth team at GitLab, and it is an experiment for myself as well, to be honest. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:29 Hila Qu You are exploring GitLab.
- ▶ 48:35 Hila Qu So when I joined at GateLab, I talk with our CEO, we have a, we have ARR, not ARR, ARR growth as our North Star metric for the company, which is fine.
- ▶ 56:00 Hila Qu Um, at GitLab, we have everything open source. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:19 Jason Lemkin What are the GitLab's worth, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Jason Lemkin As hard as things are, Harry, there is a magic in a solo GP practice or maybe a two GP fund, which is ventures so hard, but good God, Harry, if you own, if you're a solo GP and you own 10% of GitLab today, you make a hundred million… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Harry Stebbings We mentioned that pricing of some great assets, like, you know, KitLab and HashiCorp.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:11 Tristan Handy And so, um, one of my favorite lines on this was from, uh, Sid at GitLab.
- ▶ 48:40 Tristan Handy And the answer came back like, yes, GitLab, as in so many things, uh, taught us how to do that differently. 2 times in the scene
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings But I, I do want to start, and for those that missed our last episode, you know, GitLab today, public company, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:15 Sid Sijbrandij It's very normal at GitLab to plan 25 minutes on someone's calendar and just call it a coffee chat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:24 Harry Stebbings So when you look at yourself today, what more do you think you can do to improve your level and GitLab's level of remote work? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Sid Sijbrandij So the top three values at GitLab are results, iteration, and transparency. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Harry Stebbings Um, but you know, we said about kind of async, we said about feedback, you know, a lot of your investors said about this written culture that you have very much embedded within GitLab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Sid Sijbrandij So we have a strong written culture and it shows in our handbook of over 2000 pages where we detail how we work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:29 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, you know, you have this fascinating purview now, Sid, with being obviously, you know, managing the board with GitLab, but now you're also a board member. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:38 Sid Sijbrandij And if you, at GitLab, we allow a ton of people in board meetings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what is the hardest element of your role with GitLab today? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 2:00 Harry Stebbings GitLab, the world's largest all-remote organization, trusts Remote to manage their global team, and Remote is funded by Index Ventures, Sequoia, and a host of other top-tier investors.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings GitLab, the world's largest all remote organization, trusts remote to manage their global team.
- ▶ 43:57 Harry Stebbings GitLab, the world's largest all remote organization, trusts remote to manage their global team.
20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
- ▶ 1:47 Harry Stebbings GitLab, the world's largest all-remote organization, trust
- ▶ 39:17 Harry Stebbings GitLab, the world's largest all-remote organization, trusts remote to manage their global team, and remote is funded by Index Ventures, Sequoia, and a host of other top-tier investors.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings Take GitLab, for example, the world's largest all-remote organization.
- ▶ 40:06 Harry Stebbings Take GitLab, for example, the world's largest all-remote organization. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast franchises in the new scene of entrance, with a portfolio including the likes of Lambda, Calm, GitLab, Affirm, Bird, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings He has one of the best tracks I think I've seen in the business, including the likes of former guests last week in the form of Scale, Checker, Algolia, Airtable, GitLab, the list goes on, and, ah, incredible portfolio there.
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 26:00 Harry Stebbings I know like GitLab or do like a 500 dollar gift card to make that personal space super nice with a desk or a nice lamp or whatever it is.
20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings I think the way he's built both company and product is extremely unique, and I've heard nothing but exceptional things, both from his leadership team and from his board members, and so with that, I'm super excited to welcome Sid… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now without further ado, I'm very, very excited to hand over to the wonderful Sid Sidbranchi, founder and CEO at GitLab. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:49 Sid Sijbrandij I think in GitLab, when we hire people, they do have to kind of prove themselves. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Sid Sijbrandij So iteration reduces the coordination costs and it's a core value at GitLab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 Sid Sijbrandij There is accountability for results at GitLab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:46 Sid Sijbrandij We sometimes have developers starting at GitLab and they're like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Sid Sijbrandij Yeah, so GitLab is a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Sid Sijbrandij Jenkins is a testing tool, a CI tool, so he created GitLab CI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Sid Sijbrandij We make sure that we create the first instances of these new portraits in new areas, because the people who work at GitLab full-time have the best knowledge to do that, and when we do that, we do it in a
- ▶ 16:24 Sid Sijbrandij When he started GitLab, he didn't have running water in his house, and he didn't have great collaboration software, and he picked the thing that wouldn't cost any money to make, because he was a developer, he could make this himself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Sid Sijbrandij So at GitLab, we have a lot of different mechanisms in which we allow people to learn together, know each other outside of it like a transactional work setting.
- ▶ 19:49 Sid Sijbrandij We recommend High Output Management at GitLab. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Sid Sijbrandij It was really counterintuitive to see how an integrated product was better than different products working together with like GitLab Vision Cultural, GitLab CI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Harry Stebbings What a phenomenal guest to have on the show, and I couldn't be more excited about the future for GitLab, and how he's building the company, and if you'd like to see more from Sid, you can find him on Twitter at S-Y-T-S-E-S, that's Sitsus.