Gitlab’s Sid Sidbrandij: “Meetings are expensive”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder of Gitab, to talk about running a remote-first company (2:45), how it works (5:45), organising informal communication (8:30), minimising meetings (9:45), on-boarding (12:30), convincing investors (14:15), the problem with “hybrid” work models (15:50), the future of cities (18:15), and inventing ways to measure success (19:30).

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0:32.5	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
0:36.7	I think there's a lot of companies that say, you know what?
0:38.9	We're going to combine the best of both worlds.
0:41.6	And I think they'll end up with the worst of both worlds, unless they're very intentional about it.
0:58.5	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:59.5	That is right.
1:04.8	I'm in your podcast feed with a bonus episode because, you know, hey, why not?
1:11.2	So I thought I'd just publish this one, you know, kind of midweek as opposed to the normal Friday, Thursday, Friday drop because recently I was able to grab a bit of time with Sid C Brandy, who is the co-founder
1:17.2	and the CEO of GitLab, which many of you may have heard of. They make software development
1:22.8	tools in GitLab is unique in that since C Brandy set up the company up back in 2012, it has been
1:30.8	entirely remote. So today it employs 1,300 people in about 70 countries, no office,
1:38.7	which is just a fascinating, very unique model. And I thought it would be worth bringing him on because, you know,
1:46.2	the world is trying to figure out how to emerge from the COVID bunker. And I just thought it'd
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