[daqhris]

The Bay Area is probably their birthplace, best talent pool and main source of funding. Similarly, as it's the case in global governance, almost all nations have an office in New York, from where they are able to talk to each other and make use of their seat around the table at the United Nations.

[brnt]

Gitlabs birthplace is the Netherlands actually, but they wouldn't be Dutch if they let that get in the way of profit making ;)

[daqhris]

The Dutch and their history of sailing boats over the ocean... In these modern times, I believe it's about planting a flag on the land of the Vatican/Mecca of the digital tech industry.

I'd bet that GitLab, as an entity or corporation, felt mission-driven and empowered by settling not far from GitHub.

[rcbdev]

They could have a much cheaper office in Vienna though - if the U.N. backdrop was a main motivator.

Not seeing too many international career opportunities here, sadly.

[keybored]

Your opinion on this topic is instantly disqualified when you just assume that the birthplace of Gitlab is “probably The Bay Area”.