April 23, 2025

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This company was fully remote with 1,300 employees long before coronavirus — here’s how they did it

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This company was fully remote with 1,300 employees long before coronavirus — here’s how they did it

Photo caption: The founders of GitLab, Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sid Sijbrandij GitLab. Article by Jordan Novet.

Key Points

  • Despite having no offices, GitLab has enough revenue to go public, its CEO said.
  • The company keeps information open by default, and recently it removed language on its website about timing for an initial public offering. The company still wants to go public, though.

Many companies have had a rough time adjusting as all their employees moved to working remotely.That’s not the case for GitLab, one of the world’s top enterprise software start-ups. It has no offices. It’s been remote since its start in 2014. […]