Jared Santo

Welcome to the ChangeLog, where we have deep technical conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world.

I'm Jared Santo.

On this episode, Adam and I are joined by Sid Sabrandage, founder of GitLab, who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO.

In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer.

That started a journey he's been on ever since, a journey that he shares with us in detail.

Along the way, Sid continued founding companies, including KiloCode,

an all-in-one agentic engineering platform which he also tells us all about but first a big thank you to our partners at fly.io the platform for devs who just want to ship build fast run any code fearlessly at fly.io okay since the brandage back on the changelog let's do it

So when you left GitLab as CEO, you were CEO, correct?

That's what you stepped down from?

Yep, correct.

That position.

It wasn't necessarily because you were done or because you've done your thing and you're ready to get a mojito and go to the island.

You actually had a health problem, a major health problem.

I mean, a health crisis in many ways around the end of 2022.

And you've been on quite a separate journey, right?

which is amazing to me, some of the details that you've gone through in order to be here today.

We're very happy that you are here today.

Can you unpack a little bit of what you've been through in the last three years, four years, with regards to your health and the journey you've been on to fight cancer?

I understand the reasoning for parallel directions or testings because you only have so much time before it's too late.

And so I totally understand that.