
Kevin Muller on Seeking Out Harsh Feedback and Commercializing too Soon
Kevin Muller is the CEO and co-founder of Passbolt, a security-first, open-source password manager, and he joined me to talk about the risks of having too much time and money, the value of getting tra...
30 Aug 202335min

Venture Capitalist Tim Chen on the Nuances of Founding an Open Source Startup
Tim Chen is a Partner at Essence VC and also the Co-Host of the Open Source Startup Podcast. Through these channels, he has the opportunity to speak with a broad variety of open source startups. Throu...
23 Aug 202338min

CEO Franz Karlsberger on Joining an Open-Source Start-Up to Scale Growth
Franz Karlsberger is the CEO of Amazee.io, an open-source platform that seeks to make developers’ lives easier by abstracting their day-to-day workload. Throughout our conversation, we explore what it...
16 Aug 202333min

Two-time founder Vlad A. Ionescu on finding success after repeated entrepreneurial failures
It’s kind of a cliche, Vlad A. Ionescu, founder and CEO of Earthly, says, but his first attempts to build something really awesome focused on amazing technology. With hindsight, he doesn’t think it’s ...
9 Aug 202342min

Exploring the European Open Source Ecosystem with Markus Düttmann
Markus Düttmann, a former Principal at Nauta Capital, is steeped in the European open source scene. From his beginnings in theoretical physics, Düttmann’s hard pivot into venture capital funding grant...
2 Aug 202323min

Demystifying Code Bases with Shanea Leven of CodeSee
This week Shanea Leven, CEO and Co-Founder of CodeSee, joins me to chat about demystifying code bases and building an effective team.In this episode of The Business of Open Source, Shanea and I discus...
26 Juli 202333min

Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen
This week Heikki Nousiainen, CTO and Co-founder of Aiven, joins me to chat about building the business, his passion for open source and entrepreneurship, and his hopes for the future of open source in...
19 Juli 202323min

Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng
Michael Cheng, Chief Legal Officer at Aalyria Technologies, is a master at strategy and execution for open-source products and companies. From his humble beginning spearheading the open source team at...
12 Juli 202328min




















