{
  "id": 9185899,
  "title": "Doctors Told GitLab’s Co-Founder He Was Out of Options. So He Switched to ‘Founder Mode’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/doctors-told-gitlabs-co-founder-he-was-out-of-options-so-he-switched",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-22T19:18:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/doctors-told-gitlabs-co-founder-he-was-out-of-options-so-he-switched-to-founder-mode/91324684"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When his cancer returned, Sid Sijbrandij challenged the assumption that existing systems would surface every option and took matters into his own hands.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}