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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 if they spend $100 with us last year, they're going to spend $175 with us this year, the same cohort.

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

So that's really healthy, and that's what we're focused on, making our customers successful.

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

We try to keep our payback period on a cash basis to like zero days.

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

As soon as the deal is signed, it should be paid back and on a revenue recognition basis the first year.

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

Yep.

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

So all the deals we do are at least one year paid up front.

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

I think it's 40-something.

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

I'm sitting at our office in San Francisco.

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

It's less than $5,000 a month, and that's the only office space we lease.

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

Just me.

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

We have 270 people working from 270 locations.

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

So we're not spending it on office space.

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

We're spending it on the product.

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

We've got 270 people and 150 are engineers.

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

So that's an enormous R&D investment to make sure that it's the best product for the whole DevOps lifecycle.

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

That's where most of the money has gone into.

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

We want to make sure we double incremental ACV again, and we look to be on the path to do that more than do that.

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

Yeah, we're between 10 and 100 million ARR.

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

No plans.

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

High Output Management.