The company has become largest all-remote organization in the world, with close to 1,300 employees in over 65 countries, and works with 100,000 organizations and an estimated 30 million registered users. In 2019, it raised a $268M Series E round, and there are rumblings of an IPO in 2021. Talk to anyone at GitLab and it becomes apparent that the values in the team handbook, which, if printed, would be over 8,000 pages of text, is a huge part of that growth. 

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China has a vibrant and booming startup ecosystem. We’ve compiled a list of five interesting Chinese startups that could soon be international phenomena.

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For Alida CEO Ross Wainwright, Building Success Isn’t About Just Knowing Customers, It’s About Working Directly With Them

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Executive Profile: Alida CEO Ross Wainwright

Freshly is the New York based direct to consumer meal delivery service, which will this year ship nearly 50 million healthy, ready made meals to over 20,000 zip codes across the U.S. We sat down with CEO and Founder Michael Wystrach to hear the full growth story. 

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Meet the Founder and CEO of Freshly - The Meal Delivery Company that's Taken 2020 by Storm

We spoke with MercadoLibre to gain insights into how it became the most valuable company in Latin America with an estimated market value of over $59B. 

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MercadoLibre: The Online Marketplace That is Now Latin America’s Most Valuable Company

The Org interviewed the CEOs of five promising sustainability startups to discuss their markets, challenges, target buyers, and team strategies.

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Interviews With 5 Silicon Valley CEOs Leading Sustainability Startups

Zoom had a wildly successful second quarter. Meet the team that has enabled the company to raise its revenue guidance for the year by 30% to $2.39 billion.

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The Team That Helped Zoom Smash Revenue Expectations In Q2 2020

Adam Nathan is the CEO and Cofounder of Almanac, a cloud-based platform for professionals to create and share open-source work documents. Founded in San francisco in 2019, they already have the world’s largest library of customizable business documents and standard operating procedures, with specific versions of docs users can copy and customize.


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Executive Profile: Adam Nathan, CEO and Cofounder of Almanac

Banking, an industry practically as old as industry itself, has seen a tremendous amount of well-funded disruption in the last decade with the emergence of neobanks. The interesting thing about the space is that investors continue pumping money into banks that are not technically banks. Instead of mucking around in years of regulatory paperwork, challenger banks have relied on the sponsor bank model, in which they partner with a traditional bank that does have a charter.

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Starting a Neobank is Easier Than Ever. These are the Teams Making it Possible

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is rebounding from an ad revenue slump caused by the coronavirus. Here's a look at the members of Snap's team who are working to ensure its continued success.

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