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Sid Sijbrandij

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
634 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So we have an open core model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

There's the open source version of GitLab and three paid versions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Each one contains more features and better support SLAs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

And we price between $4 per user per month to $99 per user per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So the most popular one is the middle one of $19 per user per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Mostly teams buying in bulk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

It's really a hybrid sales model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So you can self-order on our website and we get those purchases for just one seat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

But we also get purchases for tens of thousands of seats from large organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

It really is a hybrid sales model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So in unit counts, it's probably smaller.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

It's probably between 10 and 100 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

But if I look like where does the majority of our revenue come from, it's over 1,000 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So the company was launched a year after the open source project started in 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Um, actually I saw, I did the submarine job and I left the submarine job to become a programmer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

I saw Ruby on rails and I fell in love with that language.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

I always wanted to do programming, but it always seemed tedious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

And then I saw Ruby and the way it was written and it was beautiful.