GitLab CFO on Remote Culture Success, AI Integration

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Brian Robbins is the CFO of GitLab, a DevSecOps platform that supports software innovation. He joins Motley Fool CEO, Tom Gardner, plus Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross and AI Engineer Karl Juhl for a conversation about: - How GitLab scaled for remote culture - How technology and AI have shifted over the years - GitLab’s plan to handle the evolving cloud and DevOps landscape. Companies mentioned: GTLB Hosts: Tom Gardner, Andy Cross, Karl Juhl Guest: Brian Robbins Engineer: Bart Shannon Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, "TMF") do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Brian, thank you so much for spending the next hour with us.
0:14.1	I feel like what I'm about to do is unfair, but I expect that to happen throughout this entire hour.
0:18.4	So here we go.
0:19.6	That's just the way we roll.
0:21.7	I'm going to screen share Brian's LinkedIn page.
0:25.2	Brian, can we go on a little quick walking tour of your career
0:27.9	and what led you here to GitLab?
0:30.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:31.3	Thanks, Tom, and for the others for having GitLab on today.
0:35.8	Appreciate you having us on the show today.
0:38.1	Before I get into my bio, it would be helpful just to let the viewers know what GitLab does.
0:43.4	Yes, please. Absolutely. GetLab is the most comprehensive, intelligent DevSecOps
0:49.4	platform for software innovation. We help developers be more productive, improve operational efficiency.
0:57.0	We reduce our security and compliance risk, and we help them with their accelerate their digital
1:01.2	transformation.
1:02.5	We have approximately 50 million users on our platform, and we are one of the leading
1:07.2	DevSecOps platforms out in the market today.
1:10.7	And can you just explain what DevSecOps is to somebody who doesn't understand that term?
1:14.6	Yeah, absolutely.
1:16.6	When people manage to deploy secure software, there's a number of different personas that touch.
1:24.6	Typically, if you go back 10 years ago, developers would work on it, then the developers
1:29.0	would actually toss it over to the security professionals. They'd come back with the security
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