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Thoughtful open source strategies and nailing the OSS/product relationship with Joe Duffy
The Business of Open Source - July 10, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. We kicked off the conversation by talking about why Pulumi is open source in the first place — a mix of Joe’s long-standing interest in open source and a feeling like a developer tool like P...
How to save your company with a license change with Tyler Jewell
The Business of Open Source - July 03, 2024 08:39 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Tyler Jewell — for the second time, now. Last time I spoke with Tyler, he was an investor at Dell Technologies Capital, he’s since taken over as CEO of Lightbend. We talked about a lot, but there was a definite theme to our conver...
BlueTech Forum 2024: Highlights and Reflections
BlueNotes - July 01, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the Blue Notes podcast, the hosts, Rhys and Divya, begin with a discussion about recent technical hiccups Rhys faced and a brief update on Divya's camper van office situation due to a house move. They reflect on their experiences at the Bluetech Forum, highlighting key present...
Complementary Projects and Products with Justin Cormack
The Business of Open Source - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I have an episode I recorded on site at AI-Dev in Paris with Justin Cormack, CTO of Docker. We finally get around to talking about AI at the very end of the episode, but otherwise we talked business and open source and how Docker manages both. He...
Excellent Open Source User Experiences with Karthik Ranganathan
The Business of Open Source - June 19, 2024 09:41 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Karthik Ranganathan, founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte. This is the second time Karthik has been on the podcast, but since three years had passed I thought it’d be a good idea to catch up and see what’s changed at Yugabyte and how his ...
Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson
The Business of Open Source - June 12, 2024 08:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with André Eriksson, founder and CEO at Encore. We talked about how open source develops trust, something I also discussed in the episode I recorded with Reshma Khilnani. For Encore, it’s subtly different, though. In the case of Medplum,...
Open Source Internal Startups with Saurav Pathak
The Business of Open Source - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Saurav Pathak, chief product officier at Bagisto, about a very different kind of business relationship with open source — and open source software incubated in a larger company. There were tons of interesting nuggets in this episode,...
Improving Your Value Prop Exponentially with Tanmai Gopal
The Business of Open Source - May 29, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Tanmai Gopal, co-founder of Hasura. We talked about how Hasura grew out of Tanmai’s previous company, which was a consulting company. I like to call out examples of really novel open source businesses, but in fact the thing that stuc...
Using Open Source for Trust, not Growth, with Reshma Khilnani
The Business of Open Source - May 22, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis 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 l...
Edinburgh calling! 🏴 Network with water leaders at Bluetech Forum 2024
BlueNotes - May 15, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode features the upcoming Bluetech Forum, an event hosted by BlueTech Research that convenes experts from the global water sector. Scheduled for June 3rd and 4th, the forum highlights include innovation showcases. Hosts Rhys and Divya also discuss the event's emphasis on partnerships...
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...
Our Blue World Premiere recap, soft sensors and reverse osmosis insights
BlueNotes - April 29, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, Rhys and Divya discuss the global premiere of 'Our Blue World, A Water Odyssey' in New York, highlighting the fantastic celebration of the planet and the event's success, attributed to the support from various partners. They also touch upon the Brave Blue World Foundation, aimed...
Bluetech's Global Endeavors: From New York Premieres to Water Innovations
BlueNotes - April 29, 2024 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the Blue Notes podcast, hosts Rhys and Divya discuss a variety of topics including the excitement surrounding the global premiere of Bluetech's second documentary 'Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey' on Earth Day in New York, welcoming key collaborators. A significant portion o...
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...
Innovation in Action & Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Wastewater Treatment
BlueNotes - March 28, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode of Blue Notes dives into the world of water innovation. Join Divya and Rhys as they discuss the upcoming Bluetech Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland (June 3rd-4th), where industry leaders will explore the latest water tech solutions. They then shift gears to chat about a critical environ...
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 ...
Data, desalination, and disruption: The water industry's new wave
BlueNotes - February 26, 2024 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★ - 3 ratingsWe delve deep into the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in the water industry as we explore the rapid evolution of AI technology, including machine learning and generative AI, and how large language models are revolutionizing data analysis, dec...
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...
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