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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...
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 in...
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...
Thinking Hard about your License Choice with Ivan Burazin
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ivan Burazin, the CEO and co-founder of Daytona. First of all, Daytona was one of the sponsors of the first edit...
Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Ludovic Dubost
This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Ludovic Dubost, founder and CEO of XWiki about the long history of XWiki, which he started in 2003. This was ...
Building an Open Source Company for Long-Term Sustainability with John O'Nolan
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with John O’Nolan, the co-founder of ghost.org. Before further ado, John is going to be one of speakers at Open Sourc...
The Complicated Calculus around Donating a Project to a Foundation with Omri Gazette
In the last episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at KubeCon Salt Lake City, I spoke with Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Aserto has two open so...
A Massive Head Start on Product Development with Open Source with Martin Mao
This special episode recorded live at KubeCon Salt Lake City last November is with Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder at Chronosphere. We talked about how M3 was foundati...
Finding Product-Market Fit with Wei Lien Dang
Happy new year everyone! There was a short break for Christmas + New Years the past two weeks, but this week I’m back with a fabulous episode with Wei Lien Dang, Gener...
Maintaining Control of your Brand with Ramiro Berrelleza
This week on The Business of Open Source, I have a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA this fall, with Ramiro Berrelleza, the CEO of Okteto. We kicked off...