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Timing the Evolution of a Successful Open-Source Project with Ben Haynes
Ben Haynes, the Founder and CEO of Directus, created an open-source project while working at his own agency in 2004. In this episode, we explore how he went from maint...
The Human Cost of Increasing Freemium Users with Peer Richelsen
Peer Richelsen is the Co-founder of Cal.com, an open-source calendar scheduling tool. This week, Peer and I discuss his personal experience with needing a customizable...
Balancing Community and Monetization in Open Source with Birthe Lindenthal
Birthe Lindenthal is the Co-founder and CMO of OpenProject, a web-based project management system. On this episode, Birthe and I discuss the inception of the company, ...
From 4,000 GitHub Stars to a Successful Open Source Business with Didier Lopes of OpenBB
Didier Lopes, Co-founder and CEO of OpenBB, joins me to share the story of how OpenBB went from receiving 4000 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours of the project to a f...
How Useful Tools Create Brand Identity and Community with Loris Degioanni
Loris Degioanni is the CEO and Founder of Sysdig, an open-source company working to make cloud deployment more secure through the use of runtime insights. Loris and I ...
The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, an open-source vector database company that helps contribute to the advancement of AI technology. Throughout this epi...
From Open-Source Side Project to Enterprise SaaS Solution with Ben Rometsch
Ben Rometsch is the CEO and Founder of Flagsmith, an open-source feature flagging platform. In this conversation, we explore how he landed on the idea to develop an op...
Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell
Max Howell is the CEO of Tea, a revolutionary open-source project that is seeking to help open-source contributors get paid for their work through crypto. Throughout o...
Creating a Greener World Through Open-Source Software with Nicolas Höning
Nicolas Höning is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seita, an open-source energy optimization and digitalization company. Nicolas took an unconventional path to founding an o...
Creating a Movement through Community with Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon’s passion for building communities has been a driving force in a career taken him from Canonical to GitHub to founding the Community Leadership Core communi...
Mitigating the Risks of an Acquisition with Michael Cheng
Michael Cheng is an M&A Specialist who has had an extensive career that includes a former stint at Facebook as a Product Manager and his current role as a Lawyer. In t...
A Second-Time Founder’s First Foray Into Open Source with Lars Kamp
Lars Kamp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Some Engineering, the makers of Resoto. In this episode, Lars describes what he’s learned from founding and working at multiple ...
Advice for Open-Source Founders from a Seed-Stage VC with Amanda “Robby” Robson
Amanda “Robby” Robson is a Partner at Cowboy Ventures and the co-host of the Open Source Startup Podcast. In this episode, Robby shares insights on what she’s looking ...
Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Community Data with Daniel Izquierdo
Daniel Izquierdo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bitergia, an open-source company that provides software development data and analytics. In this episode, we connect at th...
How Not to Make Open Source with Leszek Manicki
Leszek Manicki is the Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Germany. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao to discuss what he has learned being a ...
Getting The Most Out of Open-Source Events with Brian Proffitt
Brian Proffitt is the Senior Manager of Community Outreach at Red Hat’s OSPO. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit EU to discuss how Brian uses events...
Embracing Product-Led Growth in Open Source with Kim McMahon
Kim McMahon is the leader of Open Source Marketing & Community at Outshift by Cisco, which is Cisco’s emerging technologies and innovation unit. We recorded this episo...
Shifting a Go-To-Market Strategy from Services to Product-Led with Alexander Krüger
Alexander Krüger is the Co-Founder and CEO of United Manufacturing Hub, an open-source company that develops software for the manufacturing industry. Throughout our co...
A Case Against Starting Your SaaS as an Open-Source Company with Steven Renwick
This week I’m chatting with Steven Renwick, CEO of Tilores. As you’ll hear in the episode, we connected when I mistook Tilores for an open-source company. Steven graci...
Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models
Philippe Humeau is the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdSec, an open-source security company with a very unique business model that doesn’t fit the usual open source pattern...