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Doctors Told GitLab’s Co-Founder He Was Out of Options. So He Switched to ‘Founder Mode’

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23.09.2026

Doctors Told GitLab’s Co-Founder He Was Out of Options. So He Switched to ‘Founder Mode’

When his cancer returned, Sid Sijbrandij challenged the assumption that existing systems would surface every option and took matters into his own hands.

BY LUCIA AUERBACH, NEWS WRITER

Sid Sijbrandij. Photo: Courtesy subject

Sid Sijbrandij is no stranger to a challenge. After all, he’s the co-founder and executive chair of GitLab, a software company with over 2,500 employees and an $8.2 billion market capitalization. But fighting........

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