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Using Open Source for Trust, not Growth, with Reshma Khilnani
The Business of Open Source
English - May 22, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes - 29.4 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsTechnology Business Entrepreneurship open source open source startup founder stories business end user stories real world Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Reshma Khilnani, CEO and founder of Medplum. Medplum is an open source electronic health record development platform, and one of the things I loved about this conversation is that Reshma is so focused on the healthcare industry — a level of focus that I find relatively rare in open source companies. And not only that, when I asked her if she thought the company’s focus was too narrow, she responded that actually she often worries that it’s too broad.
Another thing I really liked about this episode is that open source, for Medplum, is about trust and transparency, not growth. Medplum’s customers, Reshma said, just don’t mess around with free software that doesn’t come with compliance certificates and some kind of support guarantees. It’s a great episode to come on the heels of the episode with Adam Jacob, who talked about the difference between code, software and a product — that is a distinction that Medplum has clearly nailed.
Other takeaways if you’re running an open source company:
One last bit of info: Reshma compared the conversation around open source startups now with “internet startups’ in 2013. Will all startups be open source startups in 10 years? I guess we’ll see.