In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let’s do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.
Leading GitLab to IPO
Today I’m talking with Sid Sijbrandij — the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab. Yes, Sid is back and hot of the heals of GitLab’s massive IPO last October 2021. To set the stage, we recorded this on Feb 1, 2022 and during the show I mentioned that they IPO’d at a $13B market cap, but they actually ended their opening day at approximately $15B. That’s a massive win for open source, GitLab, Sid, and the rest of the team at GitLab. For loyal listeners you know I’ve had Sid on this show before so of course I had to make sure we got him back on the show post-IPO to get all the details of this new journey.
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Sid’s appearances on Changelog.com podcasts (in reverse chronological order)
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