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Sid Sijbrandij

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Sid Sijbrandij

@sytses

Co-founder & Executive Chair of GitLab. Co-founder of Kilo Code. I love economic mobility, remote work, new cities, big art, incentive design, and curing cancer

Joined March 2009

Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
May 23, 2020
Below is a thread about the future of remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. I predict that remote will go through a trough of sorrow due to hybrid not working out, and most companies will return to being office based. But many all remote companies will see success.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Dec 5, 2024
On today’s earnings call, I announced my transition from @gitlab’s CEO to the Executive Chair of the Board. I want more time to focus on my cancer treatment and health. My treatments are going well, my cancer has not metastasized, and I'm working towards making a full recovery.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Sep 6, 2022
.@paulg I always loved your tweet below 🙂 Today we announced our quarterly earnings and crossed over $100m of quarterly revenue. About 2.5 years ago this was under $100M annually. Thanks to all our customers, contributors, users, partners, and team members for making this happen
Paul Graham
@paulg
Feb 12, 2020
A startup reported their ARR has reached $99.9m. I know two things from this: their ARR, and that they don't fudge their numbers.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Nov 3, 2021
YouTube having a 2x speed playback function has probably done more to accelerate learning than some medium size universities.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Jan 23, 2021
Google can search the entire internet in under 1 second but searching just my Google Drive always takes more than 5.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Jul 8, 2019
Want to learn more about remote work? We published the the most comprehensive list of articles I've seen so far about.gitlab.com/company/cultur…
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Oct 22, 2020
Wonder what software we use at GitLab? We published our entire tech stack about.gitlab.com/handbook/busin…
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Jun 7, 2019
At GitLab with 650 people we don't have an asset we have to depreciate. Our depreciation limit is $5000 and we don't have a physical item that expensive or such a lease. All remote helps to prevent long term office leases and so far nobody needed a Mac Pro or Pro Display :)
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Nov 3, 2019
GitLab Inc. has grown from 407 people at the start of the year to more than 1000 today, welcome everyone! Last week we hired 35 people and we have hundreds of open vacancies to be hired in the three months remaining so please apply if you're interested
Join GitLab
From about.gitlab.com
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Mar 4, 2020
Due to the Coronavirus we’re seeing a huge uptick in people visiting our guide on how to work remote like we do @gitlab. See the guide for yourself at about.gitlab.com/company/cultur… to prepare for what might be coming.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
Apr 17, 2020
When working remote it is important to formalize informal communication. Explicitly plan time to create, build, and maintain social connections and trust. In our handbook we list 15 methods about.gitlab.com/company/cultur… which I'll summarize in this thread.
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
May 23, 2020
Replying to @sytses
And stop saying that all creative thinking needs a whiteboard. There are 2 advantages to a whiteboard (you can draw arrows and circles) but linked are 17 reasons why a shared Google Doc is better, including that everyone can write on it at the same time. about.gitlab.com/company/cultur…
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
May 23, 2020
Replying to @sytses
As Bretton Putter said in the linked tweet: "The majority of CEOs who ran office-based businesses before the pandemic and didn't invest in their culture unknowingly relied on their office space environment to hold their unwritten culture together".
Bretton Putter
@BrettonPutter
May 22, 2020
Replying to @BrettonPutter @sytses and 3 others
The majority of CEOs who ran office-based businesses before the pandemic and didn't invest in their culture unknowingly relied on their office space environment to hold their unwritten culture together
Sid Sijbrandij
@sytses
May 23, 2020
Replying to @sytses
Somehow the lesson that companies deduce from this isn't that that should go all remote, but that they should go hybrid, combining remote and co-located work. I think that hybrid is much harder and less likely to be successful. This thread will include examples of why it is hard.