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We want to share our success story with the startup community.",[18],"Philippe Lafoucrière","https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1749679751/Blog/Hero%20Images/gemnasium-gitlab-cover.png","2019-04-30","\n\nGoing through acquisition is never easy, and often fails eventually. Two common scenarios can occur:\nEither the two companies are of similar size, and in this “merger” configuration employees are\nscared of duplicate jobs; or the buyer is slightly bigger than the seller, and there's a risk of losing\nthe culture and cohesion of the team. Ours was the latter: We were afraid of being absorbed and\ndigested completely, and eventually not working on the same subjects anymore, or not together.\nI’ve spent years building a trusting relationship with my team, and I was worried about\ntheir future in this new adventure.\n\nThis story is different. We’ve been at GitLab for over a year now, and it's all been for the best.\nWe still have the pleasure of working together, even though the team has doubled in size since.\nI wanted to share some reflections on Gemnasium's experience of being acquired by and integrated into GitLab:\n\n## Negotiating the acquisition\n\nWe had our share of ups and downs during the development of Gemnasium. I learned to be very\ncautious about my business relations. This due diligence is always a critical step, especially for\nthe buyer, to avoid any surprises and ensure the quality of the purchased product.\nDuring that step, we couldn’t answer all the requests from GitLab, since sharing algorithms and\nsource code was putting us at risk. But we explained why and managed to provide something\nclose enough to fulfil the requirement. We had open and healthy discussions at that point with\nGitLab, and it helped to create the trust we were looking for.\n\n## Joining GitLab\n\nWhen we joined the company, I was amazed to see everyone contributing to the [handbook](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/).\nLiterally everyone, including PeopleOps, Sales, and Marketing. Committing changes with Git is the\nDNA of the company, and really makes a difference. There’s no one left behind, struggling with\nthe inherent technical difficulties of contributing to a shared repository.\nThen I discovered what fuels GitLab to make it so special: Slack. A lot of companies already use\nSlack, often for the best. But with GitLab being an all-remote company, Slack is a main communication\nchannel for everyone, including with other teams. At the time, GitLab was already present in\n40 countries (vs more than 50 as of today), which means a lot of time zones covered. There’s\nalways someone available to help and answer questions.\nEven administrative problems are taken care of by the People Ops team in a few minutes. Not\ndays, not weeks – minutes. It allows all employees to focus on what really matters: Delivering and\nmaking the product better. No need to follow up anymore, nothing to complain about; the burden\nis just gone, and everybody moves on. When you make the life of your employees easier, they are\nhappier and more productive. As simple as that.\n\n## Concluding the Gemnasium story\n\nThe acquisition, like everything else at GitLab, went extremely quickly – so quickly that we didn’t have the\nopportunity to bond one last time together as a team. That was a concern to me, also because\nthe onboarding was overwhelming. So many questions, so many processes and new concepts to\ndigest. Our Product Manager Fabio Busatto was really helpful and did everything he could\nto get up to speed as soon as possible. It felt obvious that we would benefit from having a “retreat”\nin a common place, to close the Gemnasium story, and put the new GitLab one on track. “We don’t\ndo that at GitLab, we’re a remote company,” was the first answer I got. I didn’t have to insist\ntoo much to convince our CEO [Sid](/company/team/#sytses), and I promised to keep everything cheap and neat. We already had two\nteam members in Quebec City, so it made sense to organize something here, to save on travel.\n“[Everything starts with an issue](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#everything-starts-with-an-issue)” at GitLab, so I created\n[one to make this case](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/people-ops/General/issues/99).\nA few days later, the idea and budget were approved without any trouble. We could spend a\nwhole week altogether, and it was a great experience for all of us. The feedback from the team\nwas very positive, and it boosted morale as well.\n\n## Becoming the Secure Team\n\nAs an official part of GitLab, the Gemnasium team became the Security Products\nTeam, now called the [Secure Team](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/secure/). Our scope is much broader than just dependency scanning, and\nwe were expected to deploy SAST, DAST, and Container Scanning solutions. It took us less than a month\nto deliver an [MVC](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#minimal-viable-change-mvc) of dependency scanning, based on Gemnasium. We were already working\nremotely, using GitLab, so the pipeline and other parts of the equation were familiar to us. Before the\nnext milestone following our arrival, Gemnasium was running on GitLab infrastructure.\n[Dmitriy](/company/team/#dzaporozhets) (CTO) and Sid (CEO) were really present, taking the pulse of the team, and helping us\nto remove any roadblocks. They didn’t try to force us to do this integration their way. It was really\na collaboration and every meeting began with them asking, “How can we help you?”\n\n## Transitioning from manager to individual contributor\n\nAfter a few months, it became obvious that the team was performing well and heading in the right direction.\nWe had results, customers, and a huge roadmap ahead of us. It was time to start hiring new engineers.\nBack then, I was meeting with a lot of customers, gathering feedback and ideas to help our product\nmanager, and helping with pre-sales. Hiring new engineers can be very time consuming, and\nwith our expectations for the Secure Team, that means a full-time job for a while. Instead of\nforcing me to stop what I was doing and start right away with the recruiting, my manager\ndecided to leverage my skills. I was recently promoted to a Distinguished Engineer position,\nwhich also means switching from the [management branch to the Individual Contribution path](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/careers/#individual-contribution-vs-management).\n\nThis is a big shift for me and the team, but in the end, it results in more space and latitude to\nwork on various subjects: Developing our Security Products is much more than just a roadmap\nand implementation. We need to understand the competition, discuss strategic partnerships,\nidentify risks and opportunities, and many other things left aside during all our regular processes.\nBeing my own boss for the last 10 years taught me to be efficient and put the team in the best position for success.\n\n> The bureaucracy that's often associated with large organizations\nis very limited, even after growing to more than 500 people\n\nMy manager, [Dalia Havens](/company/team/#dhavens), has been nothing but supportive\nin this area since the beginning, and a great [servant leader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership).\nGitLab has been successful so far because the bureaucracy that's often associated with large organizations\nis very limited, even after growing to more than 500 people. As soon as a roadblock is identified,\nwe can discuss collaborate to fix the problem, sometimes right away.\nReducing the number of steps necessary to actually achieve or deliver something is one of the keys\nto happiness for a team used to iterating daily.\n\nI think this is the main reason for the success of this acquisition. At no time did GitLab try to put us in a box.\nAs soon as the results are there, we’re free to experiment, to innovate, and more importantly, to build our own future.\n\n## Experimenting and innovating\n\nOne good example of this freedom to explore is the [auto-remediation feature](/direction/application_security_testing/#auto-remediation).\nIn 2014, we shipped our second iteration of the Auto-Update in Gemnasium. While the\nalgorithm behind the update sets had been improved, we were aware that the setup was far from\nsimple, which was against the philosophy behind Gemnasium: In order to work, our algorithm\nhad to run the pipeline, maybe multiple, consecutive times (with different update sets).\nThis was clearly hard to achieve for our users, and for our developers (we didn’t know anything about the test suite).\nBeing part of GitLab would solve that issue, as we would eventually be able to pilot the pipeline\nfor that. Even better, we would be able to hide the runs from the users.\n\nAfter a few customer meetings, it was obvious that this feature was a competitive advantage, and we decided to push\nit more. The whole team was excited to contribute to what would be the first MVC, as our product\nmanager helped to refine the feature, gluing all the pieces together. This step was essential:\nIt allowed everyone to contribute and influence the roadmap. 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