Assertion Supported AI assessment confidence: 85% certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

GitLab has 10,000 paying customers across 100,000 organizations

Sid Sijbrandij · GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers · Jul 24, 2020 · at 8:32

Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab, details the company's user base and paying customer metrics on Top Founders with Nathan Latka.

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“So today, GitLab is used in over a 100,000 organizations. So we got millions of users. There's 10,000 paying customers.”

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The claim, plainly

As of July 2020, GitLab is used across more than 100,000 organizations, with millions of users and 10,000 paying customers.

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Assessment

GitLab's contemporaneous corporate disclosures and subsequent financial analyses corroborate all three components of the statement made by then-CEO Sid Sijbrandij in July 2020. First, multiple press releases across December 2019, April 2020, and May 2020 stated that GitLab supported more than 100,000 organizations. Second, disclosures and SEC Form 10-K filings confirmed millions of users (estimating over 30 million registered and active users). Third, while GitLab's SEC Form S-1 reported only 'Base Customers' with ARR >= $5,000 (2,126 as of July 31, 2020), contemporaneous 2020 reporting cited 10,000 total paying customers, which is fully consistent with S-1-derived equity research showing 15,356 total paying customers by June 2021.

December 2019 and April/May 2020 GitLab press releases confirmed the platform was used across 'more than 100,000 organizations' and had an estimated '30 million+ users'.
Independent equity research analyzing GitLab's Form S-1 filing reported approximately 15,356 total paying customers/users as of June 2021, consistent with having ~10,000 paying customers in mid-2020.
GitLab's SEC Form S-1 reported 2,126 Base Customers (ARR of $5,000+) as of July 31, 2020, representing the enterprise subset of total paying accounts.

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[1] newconstructs.com [2] sec.gov [3] sec.gov [4] sec.gov [5] sec.gov [6] sec.gov [7] sec.gov [8] gitlab.com

"GitLab" S-1 "customers" "ARR" "July 2020" OR "July 31, 2020" OR "October 31, 2020" "Base Customers" "1,662" "2,745" "GitLab" "GitLab" "Base Customers" OR "Customers with ARR" "S-1" "July 31, 2020" site:sec.gov "GitLab" "30 million registered users" site:sec.gov "10,000" "paying customers" "GitLab" "GitLab" "S-1" "July 31, 2020" customers OR "paying customers" OR "organizations" OR "users" "GitLab" "more than 100,000 organizations" OR "100,000 organizations" 2020 OR 2021 "100,000 organizations" site:about.gitlab.com/press/ OR site:about.gitlab.com/company/ 2020

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