
A Product Strategy Framework for Going from Closed to Open Source
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Kris Zyp, SVP of engineering at HarperDB, in the third and final episode in the series about how Harper went from a closed-source company t...
18 Aug 31min

Giving your Users a Well-Lit Path with Matt Watson
In today’s episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Matt Watson, CEO of Fullscale, about a number of topics related to product development and how AI is changing that. Let’s start with a q...
10 Aug 34min

Interviewing your Target Customers to Accelerate Product-Market Fit
This week on The Business of Open Source, I talk with Julien Verlaguet, the CEO of Skiplabs. Julien is a programming language guy, and we talked about what it means to maintain an open source programm...
3 Aug 37min

Making AI an Opportunity with Joshua Drake
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with Joshua Drake, president and CTO of Command Prompt, about business management, bootstrapping versus taking investment, and AI, open source ...
30 Juli 40min

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 company to a open source company. I al...
6 Juli 33min

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 is changing the developer tools ...
2 Juli 39min

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 traction, and followed by the founders f...
22 Juni 40min

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 about whether or not there is a r...
15 Juni 42min



















