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Transitioning Your Career Focus with Anurag Goel

The Business of Open Source

English - August 18, 2021 07:30 - 29 minutes - 40 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO of Render, joins me on this episode of Cloud Native Startup. Learn about his beginnings at Stripe as employee #8, the birth of Render and how it solved a gap in the market, and his lessons learned while transitioning roles. We also discuss how open source fits into business strategy and much more.


In this episode, we cover:

Anurag and how he founded Render (00:27) Lessons learned while transitioning professional focus from engineering at Stripe to strategic business (05:42)Anurag’s advice for people who want to transition into larger business roles (11:11)The evolution of Render and its market and use case (13:57)The important role of open source in the developer tool ecosystem (19:46)Why Anurag chose to make Render open source  (22:11)Strategies for making open source part of your platform (22:51)How open source fits into business strategy (23:55)



Links:

Anurag: www.twitter.com/anuraggoelRenderWebsite: https://render.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/render

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