Startup Stories with Fexingo · 2026-07-22 · 12 min
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 fully remote company sustain its culture now that nearly every competitor has adopted some form of remote work? #GitLab #SidSijbrandij #RemoteWork #DevOps #OpenSource #IPO #StartupCulture #AsynchronousWork #Transparency #Handbook #VersionControl #Business #Entrepreneurship #CompanyBuilding #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #StartupStories #TechLeadership Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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