What is the startup strategy that all employees could succeed even with remote work?

by bruce mars

" GitLab " is a service that supports software development environment, it is a system that can share source code and manage projects in a closed environment inside the company. GitLab Inc. that produced this GitLab has the characteristic that "all employees are working remotely" and summarizes why GitLab was successful in such an environment.

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As of 2018 GitLab has 350 employees, but the countries in which each employee lives are diverse, and it will be 45 countries in all. Because all employees are working in a remote environment, employees are always connected using video calling and chat tools such as Slack .

Such GitLab has been rapidly expanding since the establishment in 2014. In September 2018, we succeeded in financing another 100 million dollars (about 11 billion yen), and the value of the company as a company was 1 billion dollars ( It is reported that it reached about 110 billion yen). While revenues in 2014 were 165,000 dollars (about 19 million yen), revenues in 2017 have grown nearly 6000%, roughly 10.5 million dollars (about 1.2 billion yen), and it is rapid in America It is said that it is ranked in the 44th place of the company which is growing into .

Is a co-founder of GitLab Shittsue-Shiv Randy said, has testified that "the growth of GitLab was intentional." GitLab provides a platform that can gather a vast array of auxiliary tools that exist in various steps in program development in one place. By offering free limited access to individual developers and giving enterprises full access rights of full prizes, we promote "GitLab doubles development speed" by using GitLab. Improving the efficiency of the team is in a sense that it has the same result as hiring a new employee while keeping labor costs down.

by Jesús Corrius

The first version of GitLab was created in 2011 by Dimitri Zaporozzz who founded GitLab in cooperation with Mr. Shibrandi . At that time, Zaporozza served as a consulting firm in Ukraine, GitLab was born as a platform for sharing code among 200 employees. GitLab was picked up on the bulletin board · Hacker News operated by the Y combinator of venture capital, and it was steadily improved by many developers including Mr. Si Brandi who lives in the Netherlands.

Mr. Shibrandi informed Zapo Rosetz via e-mail "I am planning to launch a company of GitLab", Zapo Rosetz also quit the company and worked with Mr. Shivandi living in their respective countries and started working. We have launched GitLab Inc. as an official company in 2014 and are continuing to expand rapidly.

In June 2018, GitHab , the world's largest software development platform, was acquired by Microsoft, and there were cases where many users who did not like the start of control by enterprises flowed into GitLab. At a stretch, as many as 200,000 code projects increased within the platform, we were able to get seven times as many new orders.

by Ryan Morse

Mr. Zaporozetsu is a very cautious type, initially released the GitLab code, but revealed little information about himself, refused to make a video call when talking to Mr. Shibrandy. Even if Mr. Shibrandi searched for pictures, he seems to have sent pictures of huge sunglasses that the face can not be seen. However, when the company appeals transparency, Mr. Zaporozetsu's attitude is softened, now GitLab meetings and presentations are on the way to YouTube.

Also, although the time when each employee wakes up or works is different, it is possible to communicate by sharing information online and answering questions according to the time zone of the country where you live It is said that.

Clearly as a major advantage of the complete remote control is that "it is not necessary to lose talented people by the area or country where you live." The pool of potential talent pool that can be adopted by this will become very big and you will not have to force excellent talent near the company by force. Because there are no regional restraints, the number of applications for recruitment is also very large, and it seems that there were 13,000 entries in the second quarter of 2018 alone.

On the other hand, what is a big problem is how to maintain company culture. Employees are not given the opportunity to gather at one place to listen to the opinions and vision of the CEO, and it is difficult for all employees to lead the will. So at GitLab, we set a time called "virtual coffee break" on the employee's schedule, so that employees can talk about personal things other than working at GitLab and communicate with each other. In addition, senior executives have set up a time to video chat where any employee can participate and introduce a system that gives compensation to all employees once GitLab reaches the target set for each month. Considering the example of GitLab, even if all employees are remotely working, if they can communicate with each other and maintain transparency, it may be a great success.

by Helena Lopes