app / uses
Slack
“" And now it's got to do that digitally and that is reach out on the communication platform. We use Slack.”
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David DeSanto
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book / recommends
Essentialism
“The two that I probably recommend the most are Crossing The Chasm by Jeffrey Moore. The current edition still has some things that are a little bit older now as examples, but the core of it is still very, very amazing. The other one is Essentialism, and that is really about saying no to the right things and finding the thing that you really need to do to get the job done. And then not a book, but Jeffrey Moore created this. There's the critical core context framework, and if you've read both of those books, it really helps you frame in what is the critical part for your business, what is the core of the expectation and what are the things that you can say no to with the little bout of risks? So those things together, I think are really powerful.”
book / recommends
Crossing The Chasm
“The two that I probably recommend the most are Crossing The Chasm by Jeffrey Moore. The current edition still has some things that are a little bit older now as examples, but the core of it is still very, very amazing. The other one is Essentialism, and that is really about saying no to the right things and finding the thing that you really need to do to get the job done. And then not a book, but Jeffrey Moore created this. There's the critical core context framework, and if you've read both of those books, it really helps you frame in what is the critical part for your business, what is the core of the expectation and what are the things that you can say no to with the little bout of risks? So those things together, I think are really powerful.”
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What David said.
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Our team, I will see my direct reports usually at least a couple minutes a week on a Zoom call, but that's not the case for everyone at GitLab.
“Our team, I will see my direct reports usually at least a couple minutes a week on a Zoom call, but that's not the case for everyone at GitLab.”
- Speaker
- David DeSanto
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / commitment
The next was we wanted to be both transparent, which fits into our conversation earlier and be focused on privacy with AI. And that means that we tell you what models we're using, we're source available so you can see how we're using them.
“The next was we wanted to be both transparent, which fits into our conversation earlier and be focused on privacy with AI. And that means that we tell you what models we're using, we're source available so you can see how we're using them.”
- Speaker
- David DeSanto
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / commitment
com/values and you can see them. But what I will share with you is that we have a thanks channel where people just post a thank you note whenever they are truly thankful for something and that channel is constantly getting those messages in and it's reinforcing that engagement that you really want to have where people are working together collaboratively and assuming positive intent and so forth.
“com/values and you can see them. But what I will share with you is that we have a thanks channel where people just post a thank you note whenever they are truly thankful for something and that channel is constantly getting those messages in and it's reinforcing that engagement that you really want to have where people are working together collaboratively and assuming positive intent and so forth.”
- Speaker
- David DeSanto
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / commitment
Yeah, I think you're touching on actually when I interviewed in 2019, I actually asked Sid, our co-founder and CEO, a similar question. And I came from security in the GitLab and I said, hey, we don't share more than four or six weeks with a roadmap with customers and even sales because we were in the situation where we didn't want our great idea to be taken and built before we built it.
“Yeah, I think you're touching on actually when I interviewed in 2019, I actually asked Sid, our co-founder and CEO, a similar question. And I came from security in the GitLab and I said, hey, we don't share more than four or six weeks with a roadmap with customers and even sales because we were in the situation where we didn't want our great idea to be taken and built before we built it.”
- Speaker
- David DeSanto
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast