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December 14, 2022

'More cowbell!': Publicly livestreaming GitLab’s Nasdaq listing day & celebrating

In part two of GitLab's series, CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares how the company celebrated its listing day with a livestream and funky merch


Sid Sijbrandij

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As I mentioned in part one of this series, last October, GitLab Inc. (Nasdaq: GTLB) went public and became the first company to publicly livestream the entire end-to-end listing day at Nasdaq

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Three photos of GitLab branded merch: the first is apurple gift box full of gifts; the second is a shoe with branded socks; the third is a man with a branded tshirt on a purple background
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