This week we are joined by none other than the one and only Peter Zaitsev. Peter is the Co-Founder of Percona, a successful open source database company that remained self-funded since its inception in 2006. Peter drops his wisdom on building an open source startup, making it work with limited funds, and where the future of open source is taking us. Peter goes unscripted and give us his take on open source, companies in the open source space, and the difference between true open source companies and those using it as a business model.
In this episode, we are joined by Tigris Data founder and CEO Ovais Tariq. Ovais shares his experiences and knowledge gained while founding a new open source company. We discuss using open source software to build new open source software, the impact of the economy on fundraising, and more! Episode 6 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast is Live!
Tune in to listen to Matt and Avi share their thoughts on the impact of AI on open source, give their opinions on the recent copilot lawsuit, chat about the recent round of layoffs at tech companies, and dive into the news of the week in the open source community.
Live from all things open, Matt & Avi welcome Emily Omier to the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast. Emily and Avi discuss their talk on how to determine if your open source project sucks or not, as well as dig into how to interview users, figure out the position and messaging for your open source project, and more! We hope you will join us!
In the 3rd Episode of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast Joseph Jacks (JJ), the founder of OSS Capital, a VC firm specializing in investments in open source businesses, shares his insider view on building, funding, and growing open source businesses. Avi and Matt ask JJ to cover his investment strategy, what he looks for in founders, how he evaluates business growth, and more! If you are a maintainer thinking about trying to get seed funding, an open source business executive evaluating growth, or an aspiring investor in open source you won't want to miss this episode.
Welcome to episode 2 of the Hacking Open Source Business podcast! In this episode, Avi and Matt are joined by the CEO of Heroic Labs, Chris Molozian, and the Head of Developer Relations at Heroic Labs Gabriel Pene. Heroic labs did not start off as an #opensource company but moved to #opensource later in the company's lifecycle. Learn about some of the reasons why they made the switch, how they are currently using open source, and how open source has become critical to their product strategy.
Avi and Matt explore the trend of companies dropping open source licenses for non-osi approved licenses. We cover the recent decision to move Akka to the BSL, dropping the popular Apache 2 license. Do we need a new set of open source licenses? or do we need to stop hijacking the term open source for this new type of software? Welcome to episode 1 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast!
Avi Press, Founder & CEO of Scarf, shares his journey with open-source and how it landed him in his position today. Scarf is a venture backed company empowering open-source developers by building systems and tools to help the overall collaboration in it. Tune in to The Secret Sauce and enjoy!
We are super excited to have as our guest, Avi Press, Founder and CEO of Scarf. Avi tells us all about Scarf, Scarf Gateway, the tools that compliment it, and details how Scarf is helping open source software developers use data effectively. Also, Avi shares something he was surprised about early on with usage of open source projects.
