Frank Karlitschek shares his open source wisdom and lessons from building Nextcloud. In this episode, we touch on hot topics like the sovereign cloud, avoiding cloud lock in, building and growing a successful bootstrapped open source company, dealing with consumers and large enterprises, and more! Frank has been in the open source industry for many years and has a unique perspective on what works and what doesn't. This is episode 16 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast!
Knowing when to expand or pivot your company is about understanding the market and getting the timing right. Ben Hindman founder of D2iQ, joins Avi Press and Matt Yonkovit on episode 14 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast and talks about the journey of starting a company around Mesos ( Mesosphere ) to including Kubernetes and rebranding ( D2IQ ). Ben gives us insight into working with foundations, starting a new company, choosing open source, and more!
CEO and co-founder of MatterMost stops by the podcast to drop his wisdom and experience around building an open source company, goto market strategies, star trek, the importance of embracing the community, and more! Ian also gives us the answer to a question we did not even know we wanted to be answered: What happens when your open source software accidentally ends up in a highly secure nuclear facility?
