A Buyer's View of Open Source Companies with Mark Boost
This week on The Business of Open Source, I had a very different sort of guest — Mark Boost, the CEO and founder of Civo. We talked not only about Mark’s history as an entrepreneur, but also Civo’s re...
8 Maj 202428min
Trying All the Open Source Business Models with Brian Fox
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. In addition to having a really interesting discussion about the usual topic of how to build a business...
1 Maj 202445min
Aligning with User + Customer Needs with Rod Johnson
This week on The Business of Open Source I had Rod Johnson, founder/CEO of Spring Source and creator of the Spring Framework (as well as board member of many other open source companies) on to talk ab...
24 Apr 202446min
Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with BoxyHQ co-founder and CEO Deepak Prabhakara. We talked about a number of things, from BoxyHQ’s relationship with its open source project, called ...
17 Apr 202435min
Getting Your Pricing Model Right-ish with Alex Olivier
In the second episode that I recorded on-site at KubeCon EU in Paris, I spoke with Alex Olivier, CPO and co-founder of Cerbos. This was not a general discussion: It was focused on the process that Cer...
10 Apr 202425min
Nailing Customer Acquisition with Patrick Backman of MariaDB and OpenOcean
This week, I had a dilemma: should I prioritize the episode where I spoke with one of the MariaDB co-founders, in which we discuss setting up a foundation as a way to ensure that the project continues...
3 Apr 202436min
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
This week on The Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on site at KubeCon EU in Paris with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant. We had a fabulous conversation, which touched on some touchy su...
27 Mars 202435min
From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We ta...
20 Mars 202437min
