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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where GitLab comes up on the Official SaaStr Podcast, Top Founders, 20VC, In Depth, the a16z Podcast
Inside Moderna’s Biggest mRNA Test Since COVID
- ▶ 25:41 Jorge Conde Uh, I'm sure you've seen, uh, the story of the, of the GitLab founder, uh, who went founder mode on his, on his own, uh, osteosarcoma.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 51:48 Qasar Younis And if you look at, like, how tooling has changed in the digital AI world, if you look at, like, what Claude did to all, you know, we also remember, like, you know, from Mixpanel to, you know, GitLab, GitHub, all these, now everything has…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 39:53 Alex Kantrowitz Um, one is, I think, is it your friend, the GitLab CEO, um, Sid Sibirondaj, he had, um, he, he got cancer and used, uh, he got all the diagnostic testing, uh, he could have.
How A Tiny Team Beat A $1 Billion Giant | Palash Soni, GoldCast Founder
- ▶ 1:16:13 Palash Soni Um, but then we use that GitHub thing to get GitLab and, and a bunch of other customers.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 3:41:28 Alex Kantrowitz Um, one is, I think, is it your friend, the GitLab CEO, um, Sid Sibirondaj, he had, um, he, he got cancer and used, uh, he got all the diagnostic testing, uh, he could have.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 12:41 Ivan Burazin So think GitLab or whatnot, but the market for every single agent that will exist ever in the future is just like, what is that market?
He Lost $50/User to Build a $30M ARR AI Empire (Fathom)
- ▶ 5:45 Nathan Latka It's me interviewing my here, my database team and putting it into Claude project and saying, help me understand how to code on GitLab using conductor based off what my engineering team taught me on Fathom.
Marc Benioff vs. Verizon CEO Dan Schulman on AI, Blue Origin’s Latest Flight | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:48 unnamed speaker I mean, of course, like, you know, you want to be growing fast, and there's a lot of things, and there's, like, the long-term durability of the value that, uh, of the stock that actually informs enterprise value today, but we're certainly… 3 times in the scene
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 8:32 Christina Cacioppo And so pull from version, you know, GitHub, GitLab, whatever, look at every pull request and check, you know, these fields or this thing or some run some logic over it.
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.
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 18:24 Umesh Padval So when this was going on, his vision of DevOps CICD pipeline, which were competitors like GitLab and GitHub were closed systems.
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.
GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:14:39 Gavin Baker And this is just such a like obvious playbook that you can run Salesforce, ServiceNow, HubSpot, GitLab, Atlassian, all of them could run this.
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 31:01 Shawn Wang A Docker container that has like a clone of Reddit, a clone of Wikipedia, a clone of GitLab, a clone of CMS, and a clone of an e-commerce place.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 22:01 unnamed speaker Is it GitLab?
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:55 Ben Gilbert So companies like GitLab are already using Claude for coding, and research teams use it to process documents that would normally take weeks to analyze manually.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 58:59 John Coogan Like is this a, you know, is this GitLab to GitHub?
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:39:47 Varun Mohan This is like a very surprising finding, but most people use GitLab, Bitbucket, Garrett, Perforce, CVS, Harvest, Mercurial.
How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:33 Eric Crispin And so I was working with companies like FAIR and Max Rhodes over there right after we led the seed round, um, companies like GitLab.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 1:01:42 Boris Cherny It's like less than, you know, five seconds or so, like just types and lint maybe, and then more expensive stuff you can put in the GitHub action or GitLab or whatever you're using.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 47:46 unnamed speaker Like if you, if you have like very separate servers that do very separate things and the tools have very clear unique names, very clear, well-written descriptions, you know, your mileage might be more higher than if you have a GitLab and a…
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 23:48 Thomas Dohmke Think about GitHub via big platform, but then you still have an editor and an operating system and a container solution and a cloud that doesn't come from GitLab, right?
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 2:35 Varun Mohan This is like a very surprising finding, but most people use, ah, GitLab, Bitbucket, Garrett, Perforce, CVS, Harvest, Mercurial.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 2:11:04 John Coogan Will accept any GitLab ticket.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 32:41 Itamar Friedman Is it like on cloud or deployed on on-prem?
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:37 Nicolas Dessaigne And at YC, we've supported many of these dev tools, hundreds of them, and we already have two public companies, GitLab, the open source GitHub, and PagerDuty,
- ▶ 16:18 Nicolas Dessaigne Open source has become one of the main go-to-market for DevTools, and it definitely works as a business model, as many companies have proven, like Databricks, Elastic, Cachicorp, GitLab, all awesome great companies.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 49:15 unnamed speaker Matt Mullenweg used to be a hero. 2 times in the scene
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 2:39:59 John Coogan Uh, GitLab at seven thirty million.
The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:12 Jason Lemkin But Google Cloud, Azure, GitLab benefiting just a little bit on fire. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- ▶ 31:09 Amjad Masad Uh, this is true of GitHub and other places like GitLab.
500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- ▶ 40:42 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, Saks tweeted about this today about, I think, GitLab, which is like, like a nutty valuation. 3 times in the scene
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 36:44 Dennis Pilarinos Then the question became, was the GitLab or Bitbucket that we should do next?
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
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Lemkin You have to do better than Snowflake, Twilio, GitLab, you know, this is high bar, but I know it's a job we all signed up for.
How PandaDoc Uses CI to Manage 800 Product Updates Per Month on Path To $100m+ ARR
- ▶ 3:50 Serge Barysiuk So with the engineering, the way how it works is the whole concept is, so this is courtesy of GitLab and how they explain continuous integration, continuous delivery,
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
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 18:15 Guillermo Rauch You use open platforms like GitHub and GitLab, and you have all these marketplaces of integrations and you use the public cloud.
- ▶ 33:59 Guillermo Rauch For example, our GitHub and GitLab integrations have seen probably tens of thousands of developer hours in fine-tuning, retuning, optimizing, scaling, because one of the ways that people get to know our platform is they link their Next.js…
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 23:20 Jason Lemkin It is to find a GitLab.
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 1:15 Brett Berson Ashley is the Chief Marketing and Chief Strategy Officer at GitLab. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58 Brett Berson And so now that you've sort of immersed yourself in what GitLab is doing, I'm really interested in like, what are the big ideas or the things that matter most when you compare and contrast marketing in the context of an open source company… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:13 Ashley Kramer And so if we look back to the beginning of time of why, so just a brief, brief story of how GitLab got started.
- ▶ 7:42 Brett Berson And so what does that look like now that you're at, at scale in terms of like key programs when you think about the role of marketing at GitLab? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Ashley Kramer And the, the framework we use for that is, is documented in our GitLab handbook. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:24 Ashley Kramer And so we like to be a little bit more direct and transparent here at GitLab and say, we understand this is not going to go in the free version. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Brett Berson When you think about the marketing function at GitLab, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:28 Brett Berson When you think about the areas of ownership for marketing in the context of GitLab, you know, the demand gen SDR BDR function and the expansion function, I think those are, are examples of functions that can sit in various parts of the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Ashley Kramer And so at GitLab, we really believe on having a DRI for everything, a directly responsible individual. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:27 Ashley Kramer Like, let's, let's say you weren't coming to, to GitLab.
- ▶ 38:13 Ashley Kramer That's something that will take about three years probably for Gartner to say, no, GitLab was right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:01 Brett Berson I'm interested if you in the future were to join sort of a more traditional closed source enterprise software company again, are there important ideas that you've learned in the context of GitLab that will sort of change the way that you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:48 Brett Berson On the first point about transparency, I think a lot of folks know about GitLab's open source employee handbook, and you gave a great example about the CFO sort of sharing investor sentiment internally, and so transparency, as you… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Brett Berson When you look at the way the company internally operates outside of the handbook, what are some of kind of the interesting things that you do in the spirit of transparency? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:43 Ashley Kramer Well, I run crisis, um, for the company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:48 Ashley Kramer When you are in any kind of technical product company, which of course GitLab is, to be CMO and to, you have to really understand who you're selling to. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:32 Ashley Kramer So I can make sure GitLab's going on that journey with them. 3 times in the scene
What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
- ▶ 36:49 Jason Lemkin I'm in GitLab.
7 Fortune 250 CEOs Die Unexpectedly Every Year From This
- ▶ 28:32 Sean Weisbrot And we thought we're going to switch over from GitLab to JIRA.
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.
How He Built a $10m Revenue Company Around Camp Ticket Software, Bootstrapped!
- ▶ 20:03 Nathan Latka GitHub, GitLab, I mean, there's gotta be some kind of tools you use.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 18:44 David Rosenthal They have developer-led companies like Snowflake, Databricks, Statsig, Replit, GitLab.
No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 2:55 Jason Lemkin The, the, the, the Git labs of the world, five billion.
How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:42 Dalton Caldwell There's a company called GitLab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Dalton Caldwell Um, in the case of GitLab, it wasn't a problem for them to demonstrate who their customers were.
How we bootstrapped to $20m ARR using asynchronous work
- ▶ 11:50 Liam Martin So if someone asks me for researching for this book, I was able to, uh, be a fly on the wall for a company called GitLab. 4 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- ▶ 25:24 Hila Qu Because when I, I remember when I begin to work on PLG at GitLab, it was not that clear to me, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:57 Hila Qu So at GitLab, we actually did a bunch of analysis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:39 Hila Qu Like when I, before GitLab, I worked at Acorns. 2 times in the scene
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 59:10 Jason Lemkin You don't get to, you don't get to become GitLab or Zoom, but you can get to a hundred million in revenue growing 30% compounding if you don't quit and you don't burn a lot of money, right?
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:01 Kat Mignalek So many YC alumni, Dropbox and GitLab, for example, and hundreds more have launched on Hacker News.
What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:54 Jason Lemkin What are the GitLab's worth, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Harry Stebbings You look at this and see generally, why are you not just aggressively deploying into your HashiCorp and your Gitlabs? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Harry Stebbings We mentioned that pricing of some great assets like, you know, KitLab and HashiCorp.
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.