GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home

Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by ghaff on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:25AM (#18442158)

Many, many stories in magazines and newspapers start with a PR pitch. There's nothing especially noteworthy about it. It's how lots of stories get started.

To your broader point, I expect both extreme butt-in-seats and extreme remote are one of those characteristics you can map to successful and unsuccessful companies and you can probably find just about any pattern you want to find. (And of course most companies are some sort of blended model depending on company and function.)

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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:26AM (#18442170)

So we're in agreement this is a non-story? "GitLab's Secret To Saving On Office Space Expenses (EDIT: And Wages)" would've been a truthful (albeit less sensational) headline.

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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by ghaff on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:41AM (#18442321)

I don't think it's so much saving on office expenses. They also get access to a lot of talent, and yes, sometimes for less than if they were in the Bay Area. This isn't an especially original story; it's been written about before. But it is still interesting for those not already in the know that you have fully remote companies.

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