Keynote: Commercial Open Source Business Models - Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder & CEO, GitLab
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2019-03-15

Keynote: Commercial Open Source Business Models - In the Age of Hyper-Clouds, GitLab bets on Buyer-based Open Core - Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, GitLab 

Today is the day of hyper clouds and companies based on open source projects have challenges building a business. GitLab, the first single application for the DevSecOps lifecycle, has grown 177% YoY at the same time. In this talk, Sid Sijbrandij, the CEO & Cofounder of GitLab will share the road the company took to success. He will talk about the:
- Implications of being a commercial open source company today
- GitLab's demonstrated success in the industry
- The business models GitLab considered
- Our chosen model of buyer based open core
- How buyer based open core works
- Advantages of our choice

This talk is ideal for anyone looking to understand how open source can be monetized and will provide unique insight whether you are a startup founder, end user, or cloud provider.

Sid Sijbrandij
GitLab
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Websitehttps://about.gitlab.com/
Sid saw the first ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much he learned to program and made this his profession. Before that he was engaged in various businesses, from selling programmable infrared receivers to starting a recreational submarine company. He is always looking to publicly document an answer or to make a process more efficient. He was never good at sports but tries to make it up in quantity by hiking, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, dancing Zouk, squashing, and running. He loves participating in conversations on Hacker News, and reading Marc Andreessen's tweets (now that Marc stopped this greatly increased his productivity). Here's a link to Sid's README.