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Sid, I'm amazed about how much detail do you know about your business.I've watched a lof of your unfiltered videos. Answers like this, sometimes, are not easy f

Sid, I'm amazed about how much detail do you know about your business.I've watched a lof of your unfiltered videos. Answers like this, sometimes, are not easy for CEO of +1000 employees. How do you do it?

sytse 6y ago
Thanks! I think that this is possible because of the transparent culture we created. Other CEOs have the same level of knowledge. There is just no appetite in the company to risk saying things in public. Yesterday someone showed us the new tech stack page in a meeting. We're all proud because it replaces a bunch of spreadsheets where each department (finance, security, people) tried to maintain the same list of apps with a single yml file. I ask if anyone has a concern if I tweet it, everyone is OK with it since it is already public anyway. That takes a value of transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency which has us be public by default https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#public-by-default https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#public-by-default even when it is hard https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency-is-only-a-value-if-you-do-it-when-it-is-hard https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency-is-on... And it takes us reinforcing these values now in 17 different ways https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#how-do-we-reinforce-our-values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#how-do-we-reinforc...
- pibefision 6y ago
  Thank you
- swyx 6y ago
  you are amazing how consistently you live your values. thank you for being an inspiration to the rest of us.
- texasbigdata 6y ago
  Watching you on two or three unfiltered videos in different parts of the org (sales, product, etc) has sort of left me in awe of what a (as you self describe)”product ceo” is. Not sure how to say thank you, but thank you.

sytse 6y ago

Thanks! I think that this is possible because of the transparent culture we created. Other CEOs have the same level of knowledge. There is just no appetite in the company to risk saying things in public. Yesterday someone showed us the new tech stack page in a meeting. We're all proud because it replaces a bunch of spreadsheets where each department (finance, security, people) tried to maintain the same list of apps with a single yml file. I ask if anyone has a concern if I tweet it, everyone is OK with it since it is already public anyway. That takes a value of transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency which has us be public by default https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#public-by-default https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#public-by-default even when it is hard https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency-is-only-a-value-if-you-do-it-when-it-is-hard https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency-is-on... And it takes us reinforcing these values now in 17 different ways https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#how-do-we-reinforce-our-values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#how-do-we-reinforc...

pibefision 6y ago
Thank you
swyx 6y ago
you are amazing how consistently you live your values. thank you for being an inspiration to the rest of us.
texasbigdata 6y ago
Watching you on two or three unfiltered videos in different parts of the org (sales, product, etc) has sort of left me in awe of what a (as you self describe)”product ceo” is. Not sure how to say thank you, but thank you.