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How GitLab Built a Public Company on Remote Work Alone
Before remote work was a pandemic necessity, GitLab bet the whole company on it — no offices, no hybrid, no exceptions. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how CEO Sid Sijbrandij made that bet in 2011, when the idea sounded reckless, and how he turned it into a durable competitive advantage that helped GitLab go public in 2021 with a $15 billion valuation. They walk through the specific policies — the handbook-first culture, the asynchronous decision-making, the deliberate transparency — that made 1,300 employees across 65 countries actually work. And they ask the hard question: can a…
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