Sid Sijbrandij
Co-founder and CEO, GitLab
Open core, an all-remote company, and a handbook anyone can read
Rating
78Impact score
Domains
DevOpsOpen coreRemote work
Scouting report
Turned Dmitriy Zaporozhets’ side project into a company in 2012 and took it public in 2021, running one of the few genuinely successful open core businesses: the community edition stays free and self-hostable while the enterprise tiers pay the bills. GitLab has been all-remote from the start and publishes its entire internal handbook in public.
Curator’s note
Runs the company with the doors off, and it is a public company.
Sources
- 01GitLab en.wikipedia.org
- 02The GitLab Handbook handbook.gitlab.com