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Knowing Your Problem Space is the Moat with Adam Jacob
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, co-founder and CEO of the Swamp Club. The first thing we talked about was When To Quit. System Ini...
Open Source as a GTM Strategy with Dima Grossman of Novu
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Dima Grossman, founder and CTO at Novu. For Novu, being open source is part of the go to market strategy...
A Product Strategy Framework for Going from Closed to Open Source
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Kris Zyp, SVP of engineering at HarperDB, in the third and final episode in the series about how Harper we...
Giving your Users a Well-Lit Path with Matt Watson
In today’s episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Matt Watson, CEO of Fullscale, about a number of topics related to product development and how AI is ch...
Interviewing your Target Customers to Accelerate Product-Market Fit
This week on The Business of Open Source, I talk with Julien Verlaguet, the CEO of Skiplabs. Julien is a programming language guy, and we talked about what it means to...
Making AI an Opportunity with Joshua Drake
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with Joshua Drake, president and CTO of Command Prompt, about business management, bootstrapping versus taking...
From Closed to Open: Shortening Sales Cycles with Stephen Goldberg
This week on The Business of Open Source, I chatted with Stephen Goldberg, co-founder of Harper, about the process of taking Harper from a closed-source software compa...
Does AI Make Open Core Models More Difficult? with Sam Alba
Today on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Sam Alba, co-founder of Mendral, formerly of Dagger, and the first hire at Docker. We talked a lot about about how AI...
Closed to Open Source Series: Doing Open Source "Right" with Ethan Arrowood
One of the myths that swirl around the open source company ecosystem is that all open source companies started as an open source project that then suddenly got tractio...
The Value of Code is Dropping to Zero with Yann Lechelle
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with Yann Lechelle, Executive President of :Probabl. Perhaps the most interesting part of the conversation wa...
Why the World Needs the Agentic AI Foundation with Manik Surtani
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Manik Surtani, one of the co-founders of the Agentic AI Foundation and the CTO at the foundation. This is ...
The AI-Induced Death of A Bug Bounty Program with Glauber Costa
The Business of Open Source is back! I’m starting a series about AI and open source this week. I reached out to Glauber Costa, founder of Turso, after reading a post...
Changing Your Price Anchor with Anais Concepcion
There’s a new episode of The Business of Open Source today! It’s been a while. I talked with Anais Concepcion about a program she’s been testing at Grist to give fre...
Earning Trust with Tom Hacohen
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Tom Hacohen, CEO and founder at Svix. We kicked off the conversation by talking about why Svix is an open core c...
Go-To-Market for Open Source Companies with Quentin Sinig
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Quentin Sinig, who has been the first “business” hire at three open source companies; Strapi, Kestra and now Pru...
Open Foundations with Or Weis
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke to Or Weis, the CEO and co-founder of Permit.io. Or is a serial entrepreneur who has had a long career in developer t...
Straddling open source software and the hardware industry with Rob Taylor
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Rob Taylor, CTO/CSO and founder of ChipFlow. Although ChipFlow is unambiguously a software company, it creates s...
The double-edged sword of big initial customers with Taco Potze
This week I’m back from vacation and I have a new episode of The Business of Open Source, with Taco Potze! Taco is the co-founder and CEO of Open Social. A couple ...
Build for Dual Audiences with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz, CEO and co-founder of Penpot. We started out by talking about the transition from services c...
Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked with Alya Abbott, COO of Zulip, about managing community contributors. This is a hot topic for open source companies ...