Sid Sijbrandij

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 28, 2021 by Sid Sijbrandij · across every show →

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Dec 28, 2021 negative
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Sijbrandij: GitLab donations topped out at $1,000 per month
“We started with donations. They topped out at 1000 dollars per month. It wasn't enough to sustain the business.”
Sid Sijbrandij Dec 28, 2021 ▶ 10:40 How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
Dec 28, 2021 negative
Insight
Sijbrandij: Consulting margins are too low to reinvest into software products
“We tried consultancy, but consultancy doesn't let you have high margins. Those high margins are needed for you to be able to invest back into the product, to pay for work that is unpaid otherwise.”
Sid Sijbrandij Dec 28, 2021 ▶ 10:47 How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
Dec 28, 2021 negative
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Sijbrandij: Open-source companies should avoid heavily recruiting from their own community
“Over time, you should focus your active recruiting efforts elsewhere to avoid depleting your wider community.”
Sid Sijbrandij Dec 28, 2021 ▶ 17:37 How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
Dec 28, 2021 negative
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Sijbrandij: Making open-source features proprietary quickly destroys community goodwill
“For example, the quick, the quickest way to lose goodwill is to make an open source feature proprietary.”
Sid Sijbrandij Dec 28, 2021 ▶ 17:46 How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
Dec 28, 2021 positive
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Sijbrandij: Buyer-based open core best aligns revenue with community contributions
“So we ended up charging based on the buyer. For features that are used by an individual contributor, we put them in the open source code base. For features that are the focus of an executive, we put them in the highest paid version. That works really well beca…”
Sid Sijbrandij Dec 28, 2021 ▶ 13:24 How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
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