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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 inte...
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 ...
Building a Dual Growth Flywheel at GitLab with Nick Veenhof
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nick Veenhof, Director of Contributor Success at GitLab. GitLab has probably the most well-articulated open sour...
Solving Universal, Persistant Problems with David Aronchick
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Aronchick, CEO and founder of Expanso, about luck and timing, building into universal truths and the reaso...
David and Goliath in the CMS Market with Thomas Schedler
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Thomas Schedler, co-founder and CEO of Sulu. Sulu is a small, bootstrapped company that spun out of an agency; T...
Open Source Firmware for EV Charging Stations with Marco Möller
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Marco Möller, CEO and co-founder of Pionix. This was a fabulous conversation about a company that’s in a very dif...
AI-generated Code Copied from Open Source with Julian Coccia
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Julian Coccia, CTO of ScanOSS, about selling access to data while making open source software. Of course, we als...
How to be Successful when Donating a Project to the CNCF with Liz Rice
Today on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, which is now part of Cisco. We addressed two subjects: How to be su...
Open Source Manifestos with Vincent Untz
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked about Open Source Manifestos with Vincent Untz, CTO of Centreon. The entire conversation focused on this idea of open...
How a Rebrand Increased Sales with Lukas Gentele
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Lukas Gentele, the CEO and co-founder of LoftLabs. Here’s some of the things we covered: There are many open sou...
Fundraising and M&A for Open Source Companies with Daniel Jarjoura
This week on the Business of Open Source I spoke with Daniel Jarjoura, an investor at Avolta who specializes in developer-facing companies, and who writes a newsletter...
Products, consulting, and open source with Andrew Martin
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Andrew Martin, CEO and founder of Control Plane. Control Plane is ultimately a consulting company, as Andrew intr...
How Technology Decisions Impact Growth with Misha Bragin
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Misha Bragin, co-founder and CEO of NetBird. This was also the first episode I recorded in 2025, which gives you...
Open Source and AI Coding Assistants with Ty Dunn
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ty Dunn, founder of Continue.dev, which is an open source AI code assistant. We had a fabulous conversation that...
The CFO's View of Open Source Companies with Eileen Doody and Karen Walker
This week on The Business of Open Source I had a slightly different conversation: I spoke with the CFOs of two open source companies, Sysdig and Percona, to better und...