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The Difference between Code and Product with Adam Jacob
The Business of Open Source - May 15, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, founder and CEO of System Initiative and formerly the CTO and co-founder at Chef. We had a wide-ranging conversation that at times veered into the philosophical (what is the meaning for ‘strategy’?) but also has plenty o...
A Buyer's View of Open Source Companies with Mark Boost
The Business of Open Source - May 08, 2024 06:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I had a very different sort of guest — Mark Boost, the CEO and founder of Civo. We talked not only about Mark’s history as an entrepreneur, but also Civo’s recent acquisition of KubeFirst. This topic caught my eye because it’s not often I get an...
Trying All the Open Source Business Models with Brian Fox
The Business of Open Source - May 01, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. In addition to having a really interesting discussion about the usual topic of how to build a business around open source software, we also had a good conversation about security — it was h...
Aligning with User + Customer Needs with Rod Johnson
The Business of Open Source - April 24, 2024 09:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I had Rod Johnson, founder/CEO of Spring Source and creator of the Spring Framework (as well as board member of many other open source companies) on to talk about Spring, monetizing open source and what’s changed in the open source ecosystem sinc...
Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
The Business of Open Source - April 17, 2024 08:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with BoxyHQ co-founder and CEO Deepak Prabhakara. We talked about a number of things, from BoxyHQ’s relationship with its open source project, called SAML Jackson to how to build a growth flywheel and how that flywheel does and does not ...
Getting Your Pricing Model Right-ish with Alex Olivier
The Business of Open Source - April 10, 2024 07:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the second episode that I recorded on-site at KubeCon EU in Paris, I spoke with Alex Olivier, CPO and co-founder of Cerbos. This was not a general discussion: It was focused on the process that Cerbos went through to figure out pricing. Here’s what we talked about: The first step ...
Nailing Customer Acquisition with Patrick Backman of MariaDB and OpenOcean
The Business of Open Source - April 03, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, I had a dilemma: should I prioritize the episode where I spoke with one of the MariaDB co-founders, in which we discuss setting up a foundation as a way to ensure that the project continues to be open source in the future, no matter what (relevant given the Redis announcement...
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
The Business of Open Source - March 27, 2024 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on site at KubeCon EU in Paris with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant. We had a fabulous conversation, which touched on some touchy subjects, including Buoyant’s slightly changing relationship with Linkerd. But we talked ...
From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker
The Business of Open Source - March 20, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We talked about some things that I entirely agree with, and then there were some points I ch...
Delivering Value Quickly in the Observability Space with Pranay Prateek
The Business of Open Source - March 13, 2024 09:34 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Pranay Prateek, co-founder of SigNoz. Pranay talked about why open source is important to SigNoz's business, why it's super important to deliver value quickly, even for an observability product, and why founders shouldn't think of op...
OSFS Special Episode: Being a Strategic Acquisition Target as an OSS Company with Thomas Di Giacomo
The Business of Open Source - March 12, 2024 11:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this special episode to promote Open Source Founders Summit, I went deep with Thomas di Giacomo about how open source companies can position themselves as attractive acquisition targets for strategic buyers. If you are the founder of an open source company and you have the idea of ...
Buyer-Based Open Core with Zach Wasserman
The Business of Open Source - March 06, 2024 09:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO of Fleet. This was a fabulous episode for many reasons, but then again I never do crappy episodes, right? The first thing I wanted to call your attention to is that Zach talked about how he’s bui...
The Evolving Relationship between Cassandra and DataStax
The Business of Open Source - February 28, 2024 09:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSlightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about: — How there was a d...
The Evolving Relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax
The Business of Open Source - February 28, 2024 09:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSlightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about: — How there ...
OSFS Special Episode: A Deep Dive into GTM with Frank Karlitschek
The Business of Open Source - February 22, 2024 09:37 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the Open Source Founders Podcast, I talked with Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. Frank is going to be talking specifically about lead generation at Open Source Founders Summit, but in this episode we took a slightly wider view and talked about go to ma...
Staying Completely Open Source with Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona
The Business of Open Source - February 21, 2024 09:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Percona CEO Ann Schlemmer. This episode was recorded on site at State of Open Con in London, outside in a van! There’s a ton of great info in this episode, too. First of all, Ann talked about being a ‘suit’ in a geek’s world and h...
How to decide what goes into project and product with Mike Schwartz of Gluu
The Business of Open Source - February 14, 2024 09:17 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with four-time entrepreneur Mike Schwartz, CEO and founder of Gluu as well as the host of Open Source Underdogs podcast, about his long career in entrepreneurship. Here’s some particularly interesting things to take out of this ep...
OSFS Special Episode: Peter Zaitsev Talks Sales
The Business of Open Source - February 12, 2024 09:52 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs part of the preparation for Open Source Founders Summit, I’m interviewing both our speakers and our attendees for a special podcast that’s hyper focused on one thing. In this episode I spoke with Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, about sales. We talked about the specifics of sales a...
Staying True to Your Community and Your Bottom Line with Garima Kapoor
The Business of Open Source - February 07, 2024 08:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsGarima Kapoor, COO and co-founder of MinIO, joins me to share her journey from investor and advisor to co-founder of MinIO and the wealth of knowledge she’s amassed along the way. In this episode, Garima explains how her experience in finance and belief in the power of open source hel...
Making the Critical Pivot from Closed to Open Source with Federico Wengi
The Business of Open Source - January 31, 2024 08:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday I’m joined by Federico Wengi, who is a Partner at SquareOne VC. In this conversation, Federico sheds light on the conversations he’s had with many companies who consider making the pivot from a closed-source business strategy to an open-source strategy. Federico explains why it’s ...
Emily Omier and Remy Bertot Talk About Open Source Founders Summit
The Business of Open Source - January 29, 2024 09:03 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow can we get founders of open source companies together to share ideas, share strategies and tactics and build a community not just of open source practitioners, but of open source business owners? We create a conference/summit/retreat to bring them together to learn and to work on th...
Timing the Evolution of a Successful Open-Source Project with Ben Haynes
The Business of Open Source - January 24, 2024 08:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsBen Haynes, the Founder and CEO of Directus, created an open-source project while working at his own agency in 2004. In this episode, we explore how he went from maintaining an open-source project to building an open-source company with a solid product-led growth strategy, and how he’s ...
The Human Cost of Increasing Freemium Users with Peer Richelsen
The Business of Open Source - January 17, 2024 08:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeer Richelsen is the Co-founder of Cal.com, an open-source calendar scheduling tool. This week, Peer and I discuss his personal experience with needing a customizable scheduling tool, the big leap from taking donations to running a profitable business, and the thought process behind se...
Balancing Community and Monetization in Open Source with Birthe Lindenthal
The Business of Open Source - January 10, 2024 08:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsBirthe Lindenthal is the Co-founder and CMO of OpenProject, a web-based project management system. On this episode, Birthe and I discuss the inception of the company, how being open source directly benefits both the business and its customers, and why the connection to their community i...
From 4,000 GitHub Stars to a Successful Open Source Business with Didier Lopes of OpenBB
The Business of Open Source - January 03, 2024 08:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsDidier Lopes, Co-founder and CEO of OpenBB, joins me to share the story of how OpenBB went from receiving 4000 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours of the project to a fully funded company launching new monetization initiatives. Didier and I chat about his background, what led him to st...
How Useful Tools Create Brand Identity and Community with Loris Degioanni
The Business of Open Source - December 27, 2023 08:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLoris Degioanni is the CEO and Founder of Sysdig, an open-source company working to make cloud deployment more secure through the use of runtime insights. Loris and I sit down to discuss the bet Sysdig is making to position itself as a leader in cloud security, how Loris leverages the p...
The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt
The Business of Open Source - December 20, 2023 08:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsBob van Luijt is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, an open-source vector database company that helps contribute to the advancement of AI technology. Throughout this episode, Bob and I discuss the complexities of moving from an open-source project to building an open-source company, and t...
From Open-Source Side Project to Enterprise SaaS Solution with Ben Rometsch
The Business of Open Source - December 13, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsBen Rometsch is the CEO and Founder of Flagsmith, an open-source feature flagging platform. In this conversation, we explore how he landed on the idea to develop an open-source feature flagging project and how that has snowballed into running a full-time SaaS company. Ben describes the ...
Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell
The Business of Open Source - December 06, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsMax Howell is the CEO of Tea, a revolutionary open-source project that is seeking to help open-source contributors get paid for their work through crypto. Throughout our conversation, Max explains how he’s created some prolific open-source projects but was still unable to monetize them ...
Creating a Greener World Through Open-Source Software with Nicolas Höning
The Business of Open Source - November 29, 2023 08:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsNicolas Höning is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seita, an open-source energy optimization and digitalization company. Nicolas took an unconventional path to founding an open-source startup, and throughout this episode he describes how creating a greener world through open-source software i...
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