Our guest today is Sid Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab.
Sid, 10 years ago, most investors were reluctant to invest in remote companies. Functions like finance, sales and marketing were seen as in-house only. How did you address those concerns?
When GitLab graduated from Y Combinator, our engineering team was already working remotely and there was no reason for the rest of the team to be in-house. Of course, there were people who were skeptical about it. Our VP of Sales initially thought that a rem...