Sijbrandij: 50% of GitLab community contributions come from paid users
Sid Sijbrandij · How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij · Dec 28, 2021 · at 5:34
GitLab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij discusses how making proprietary code source-available allows paying enterprise customers to contribute code directly.
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“Looking at GitLab's wider community contributions from January to October of 20 21, where 50% of them came from users in our paid tiers.”
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