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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 was...
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 free...
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 in...
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...