Opinion

December 12, 2022

Going public in the US? This is the most important document in the process

The S-1 filing is necessary if you want to list in the US. Here’s how GitLab did it


Sid Sijbrandij

5 min read

GitLab started in 2011 from a house in Ukraine with a vision that there was a better, faster way to make software. Fast forward 10 years and the team was standing on Nasdaq’s floor in Times Square in Manhattan, making history as the first company ever to live-stream its Nasdaq public listing. 

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