About this episode
Sid Sijbrandij shares his journey from leading GitLab to founding Kilo Code while battling bone cancer.
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, 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 great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about.
People in this episode
Guest: Sid Sijbrandij
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- cancer journey
- software development
- founding companies
- technology
Keywords
- Sid Sijbrandij
- GitLab
- Kilo Code
- IPO
- bone cancer
- entrepreneurship
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GitLab, Kilo Code
Places: bone cancer
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