This startup closed its office and went remote-only - The Startup Tapes

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Many workplaces are remote-*friendly*, letting you work a day from home every now & then. But what if your company abandonned the concept of a physical office altogether, to become remote-*only?* That’s the experiment YCombinator startup GitLab started several years ago. One hundred employees later, their global corporate HQ is more empty than ever. Their CEO explains how they adapted from remote engineering to remote sales, how they keep their culture in check, and why being remote-only leads to higher company productivity.
Guest: Sytse ‘Sid’ Sijbrandij
Co-founder and CEO of GitLab
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Host: Tim Anglade
Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners
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The Startup Tapes chronicle the highs & lows of building a startup, through candid interviews with founders, operators & advisors. Tim Anglade, an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners and formerly with Realm, Apigee, and Cloudant leads the project with the goal to de-mystify the process through which startups emerge, grow & succeed. His unfiltered interviews transcribe the conversations we often hear in the boardroom, amongst our portfolio community and with entrepreneurs and partners we engage with every day.
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[@doncorleone3901]

Gitlab you are awesome. You are changing the world

[@autohmae]

9:55 it's really important to realize this is by video chat.

[@ReggaeUnicorn]

And now they’re goin public!

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