GitLab's Acquisition Strategy & Approach

GitLab's Acquisition Strategy & Approach

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  1https://about.gitlab.com Acquisition Strategy &Approach
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  2 Eliran Mesika Director ofCorporate Development
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  3 GitLab is themost popular solution for the Enterprise
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  4 ✓ Single Platform✓ Single Data Model ✓ Simple & Secure ✓ Transparent Problems Solutions faster DevOps lifecycle
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  5 GitLab is thefirst single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle Since 2016 Since 2011 Since 2011 Since 2012 Since 2016 Since 2017 Since 2016 Since 2018 Since 2016 Since 2019 Cycle Analytics DevOps Score Audit Management Authentication and Authorization Value Stream Management Coming soon: Code Analytics Workflow Policies Issue Tracking Kanban Boards Time Tracking Epics Roadmaps Service Desk Coming soon: Requirements Management Quality Management Source Code Management Code Review Wiki Snippets Web IDE Design Management Coming soon: Static Site Editor Live Coding Continuous Integration (CI) Code Quality Web Performance Usability Testing Coming soon: Integration Testing Load Testing System Testing Accessibility Testing Container Registry Package Registry Dependency Proxy Coming soon: Helm Chart Registry Dependency Firewall SAST DAST Dependency Scanning Container Scanning License Management Secret Detection Coming soon: IAST Fuzzing Continuous Delivery (CD) Release Orchestration Pages Review Apps Incremental Rollout Feature Flags Coming soon: Release Governance Secrets management Auto DevOps Kubernetes Configuration ChatOps Runbooks Serverless Infrastructure as Code Coming soon: Chaos Engineering Cluster Cost Optimization Metrics Logging Cluster Monitoring Tracing Error Tracking Incident Management Coming soon: Synthetic Monitoring Status Page Web Application Firewall Coming soon: RASP Threat Detection Behavior Analytics Vulnerability Management Data Loss Prevention Container Network Security
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  6about.gitlab.com/direction Exponential rate ofproduct improvement ● Pipelines ● Container Registry ● Environments ● Issue Boards ● Cycle Analytics ● Time Tracking ● Review Apps ● Auto Deploy ● CI ● Wiki ● Labels ● Board Milestones ● Deploy Boards ● Prometheus Integration ● Burndown Charts ● Canary Deploy ● Code Quality ● Auto DevOps Beta ● Kubernetes ● Epics ● SAST ● Group Milestones ● Audit Logs ● Multiple LDAP servers ● Oauth Support ● GitLab.com ● CI Runner ● Docker Support ● Source Code ● Issues 20172011 2015 20162012 20182013 2014 ● DAST ● Web IDE ● Incremental Deploy ● Auto DevOps ● Licence Management ● Tracing ● Feature Flags ● Load Testing ● Anomaly Alerts ● Security Dashboard ● Alerting Framework ● App Control Panel ● Binary Repository ● APM/Tracing ● Prod Monitoring ● Error Tracking ● Logging ● GitLab Shell ● Groups ● Side by Side Diff ● Operations Dashboard ● Scoped Labels ● Secrets Detection ● Epic Hierarchy ● Merge Request Approval Rules ● Cross Project Pipelines ● NPM Registry ● Serverless ● Bill of Materials ● Web App Firewall ● Design Management ● Parallel merge trains As of Oct 2019 Releases TBD: November 22 December 22 2019 Exponential rate of product improvement Target IPO: November 18, 2020
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  7 Acquisition Strategy Introduce newproduct categories and mature early categories faster by acquiring a company with a team that had already built a great product and have the team repeat that in GitLab
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  8 Product Sprouting ThroughAcquisitions Strategy 1. Acquire & Shutdown 2. Reimplement 3. Growth substrate for product category/stage Approach ● Soft landing targets ● Fast process and integration phase ● Asset purchase ● Quality core team ● Foundational product functionality
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  9 Gemnasium 1. Dependency scanning 2.Small team (5) 3. Foundation for GitLab’s Secure stage which evolved to add: SAST, DAST and container scanning
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  10 Uniquely Open Direct Focused Efficient Transparent GitLab Values:Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity & Inclusion, Iteration, and Transparency