The Business of Open Source

By Emily Omier

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Whether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.

Episode Date
Earning Trust with Tom Hacohen
Oct 08, 2025
Go-To-Market for Open Source Companies with Quentin Sinig
Sep 24, 2025
Open Foundations with Or Weis
Sep 17, 2025
Straddling open source software and the hardware industry with Rob Taylor
Sep 10, 2025
The double-edged sword of big initial customers with Taco Potze
Sep 03, 2025
Build for Dual Audiences with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz
Jul 02, 2025
Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott
Jun 25, 2025
Building a Dual Growth Flywheel at GitLab with Nick Veenhof
Jun 18, 2025
Solving Universal, Persistant Problems with David Aronchick
Jun 11, 2025
David and Goliath in the CMS Market with Thomas Schedler
May 28, 2025
Open Source Firmware for EV Charging Stations with Marco Möller
May 14, 2025
AI-generated Code Copied from Open Source with Julian Coccia
May 07, 2025
How to be Successful when Donating a Project to the CNCF with Liz Rice
Apr 30, 2025
Open Source Manifestos with Vincent Untz
Apr 02, 2025
How a Rebrand Increased Sales with Lukas Gentele
Mar 26, 2025
Fundraising and M&A for Open Source Companies with Daniel Jarjoura
Mar 19, 2025
Products, consulting, and open source with Andrew Martin
Mar 12, 2025
How Technology Decisions Impact Growth with Misha Bragin
Mar 05, 2025
Open Source and AI Coding Assistants with Ty Dunn
Feb 26, 2025
The CFO's View of Open Source Companies with Eileen Doody and Karen Walker
Feb 19, 2025
Thinking Hard about your License Choice with Ivan Burazin
Feb 06, 2025
Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Ludovic Dubost
Jan 29, 2025
Building an Open Source Company for Long-Term Sustainability with John O'Nolan
Jan 22, 2025
The Complicated Calculus around Donating a Project to a Foundation with Omri Gazette
Jan 15, 2025
A Massive Head Start on Product Development with Open Source with Martin Mao
Jan 10, 2025
Finding Product-Market Fit with Wei Lien Dang
Jan 06, 2025
Maintaining Control of your Brand with Ramiro Berrelleza
Dec 18, 2024
KubeCon Special Episode: Changing Culture with Software with Cole Kennedy
Dec 11, 2024
KubeCon Special Episode: Managing the Tension between Product and Project with Bobby DeSimone
Dec 04, 2024
KubeCon NA Special Episode: The Connection Between Community Engagement and Revenue with Mark Fussell
Nov 28, 2024
ATO Special Episode on Product Strategy with Elias Voelker
Nov 26, 2024
Applying the lessons from Docker with Solomon Hykes
Nov 20, 2024
ATO Special Episode with Nithya Ruff
Nov 13, 2024
ATO special episode with Peter Farkas
Nov 12, 2024
Selling Peace of Mind with Bhaskar from YottaDB
Nov 06, 2024
ATO Special Episode with Tatiana Krupenya of DBeaver
Nov 05, 2024
Behind the Scenes of the Open Source AI Definition with Stefano Maffulli
Oct 30, 2024
Price Anchors of Zero Dollars with Anais Concepcion and Paul Fitzpatrick
Oct 23, 2024
Getting people to use the features you already have with Eric Holscher
Oct 16, 2024
Open source companies' reputation problem with Chris Holmes
Oct 09, 2024
Building your product with your customers with David Höck
Oct 02, 2024
Finding and losing product-market fit with Allard Buijze
Sep 25, 2024
Friendly Competition within the ClickHouse Ecosystem with Robert Hodges
Sep 18, 2024
Feature prioritization and customers' perceived value with Brad Micklea and Jesse Williams
Sep 11, 2024
The Importance of Clear Frameworks for Product vs Project with Jimmy Zelinskie
Sep 04, 2024
Product market fit for project and product with Galeal Zino
Aug 28, 2024
Complicated pricing and competition against the big players with Raphael Michel
Aug 21, 2024
Creating an ecosystem with Ashraf Samhouri
Aug 14, 2024
Testing 17 different income streams with Per Ploug Krogslund
Aug 07, 2024
Open source as a privilege of successful businesses with Tom Wilkie
Jul 31, 2024
Realistic pros and cons of working with foundations with Mike Milinkovich
Jul 24, 2024
Controlling your own narrative in a hot market with Vinoth Chandar, founder of Onehouse
Jul 17, 2024
Thoughtful open source strategies and nailing the OSS/product relationship with Joe Duffy
Jul 10, 2024
How to save your company with a license change with Tyler Jewell
Jul 03, 2024
Complementary Projects and Products with Justin Cormack
Jun 26, 2024
Excellent Open Source User Experiences with Karthik Ranganathan
Jun 19, 2024
Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson
Jun 12, 2024
Open Source Internal Startups with Saurav Pathak
Jun 05, 2024
Improving Your Value Prop Exponentially with Tanmai Gopal
May 29, 2024
Using Open Source for Trust, not Growth, with Reshma Khilnani
May 22, 2024
The Difference between Code and Product with Adam Jacob
May 15, 2024
A Buyer's View of Open Source Companies with Mark Boost
May 08, 2024
Trying All the Open Source Business Models with Brian Fox
May 01, 2024
Aligning with User + Customer Needs with Rod Johnson
Apr 24, 2024
Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
Apr 17, 2024
Getting Your Pricing Model Right-ish with Alex Olivier
Apr 10, 2024
Nailing Customer Acquisition with Patrick Backman of MariaDB and OpenOcean
Apr 03, 2024
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
Mar 27, 2024
From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker
Mar 20, 2024
Delivering Value Quickly in the Observability Space with Pranay Prateek
Mar 13, 2024
OSFS Special Episode: Being a Strategic Acquisition Target as an OSS Company with Thomas Di Giacomo
Mar 12, 2024
Buyer-Based Open Core with Zach Wasserman
Mar 06, 2024
The Evolving Relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax
Feb 28, 2024
OSFS Special Episode: A Deep Dive into GTM with Frank Karlitschek
Feb 22, 2024
Staying Completely Open Source with Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona
Feb 21, 2024
How to decide what goes into project and product with Mike Schwartz of Gluu
Feb 14, 2024
OSFS Special Episode: Peter Zaitsev Talks Sales
Feb 12, 2024
Staying True to Your Community and Your Bottom Line with Garima Kapoor
Feb 07, 2024
Making the Critical Pivot from Closed to Open Source with Federico Wengi
Jan 31, 2024
Emily Omier and Remy Bertot Talk About Open Source Founders Summit
Jan 29, 2024
Timing the Evolution of a Successful Open-Source Project with Ben Haynes
Jan 24, 2024
The Human Cost of Increasing Freemium Users with Peer Richelsen
Jan 17, 2024
Balancing Community and Monetization in Open Source with Birthe Lindenthal
Jan 10, 2024
From 4,000 GitHub Stars to a Successful Open Source Business with Didier Lopes of OpenBB
Jan 03, 2024
How Useful Tools Create Brand Identity and Community with Loris Degioanni
Dec 27, 2023
The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt
Dec 20, 2023
From Open-Source Side Project to Enterprise SaaS Solution with Ben Rometsch
Dec 13, 2023
Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell
Dec 06, 2023
Creating a Greener World Through Open-Source Software with Nicolas Höning
Nov 29, 2023
Creating a Movement through Community with Jono Bacon
Nov 22, 2023
Mitigating the Risks of an Acquisition with Michael Cheng
Nov 15, 2023
A Second-Time Founder’s First Foray Into Open Source with Lars Kamp
Nov 08, 2023
Advice for Open-Source Founders from a Seed-Stage VC with Amanda “Robby” Robson
Nov 01, 2023
Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Community Data with Daniel Izquierdo
Oct 25, 2023
How Not to Make Open Source with Leszek Manicki
Oct 18, 2023
Getting The Most Out of Open-Source Events with Brian Proffitt
Oct 11, 2023
Embracing Product-Led Growth in Open Source with Kim McMahon
Oct 04, 2023
Shifting a Go-To-Market Strategy from Services to Product-Led with Alexander Krüger
Sep 27, 2023
A Case Against Starting Your SaaS as an Open-Source Company with Steven Renwick
Sep 20, 2023
Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models
Sep 13, 2023
Samuel Stroschein on the Challenges and Opportunities of Localization
Sep 06, 2023
Kevin Muller on Seeking Out Harsh Feedback and Commercializing too Soon
Aug 30, 2023
Venture Capitalist Tim Chen on the Nuances of Founding an Open Source Startup
Aug 23, 2023
CEO Franz Karlsberger on Joining an Open-Source Start-Up to Scale Growth
Aug 16, 2023
Two-time founder Vlad A. Ionescu on finding success after repeated entrepreneurial failures
Aug 09, 2023
Exploring the European Open Source Ecosystem with Markus Düttmann
Aug 02, 2023
Demystifying Code Bases with Shanea Leven of CodeSee
Jul 26, 2023
Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen
Jul 19, 2023
Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng
Jul 12, 2023
Finding the Right Co-Founder With Tanis Jorge
Jul 05, 2023
Striving for a Frictionless Developer Experience through AI Workflows with Kyle Campbell
Jun 28, 2023
Ethics In Open Source With Matt Butcher
Jun 21, 2023
Enhancing Your Contributor Growth Strategy With Dawn Foster
Jun 14, 2023
Developing Your Public Speaking Skills with Bart Farrell
Jun 07, 2023
Open Source Feature Management with Ivar Østhus
May 31, 2023
WebOps and Community Relations with Josh Koenig
May 24, 2023
Developing Open Source Coding Tools with Daniel Loreto
May 17, 2023
Building a Sustainable Platform With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
May 10, 2023
Investing and Monetizing a Start-up With Akriti Dokania
May 03, 2023
Cultivating an Active Community With Stefan Avram
Apr 26, 2023
Simplifying Authorization With Emre Baran
Apr 19, 2023
Open Source Business Strategy With Tyler Jewell
Apr 12, 2023
Pushing Boundaries and Removing Barriers with Ron Efroni
Apr 05, 2023
Demanding Something Better with Gael Duval
Mar 29, 2023
Challenging Yourself Through Open Source with Peter Zaitsev of Percona
Mar 22, 2023
Changing the World through Open Source with Frank Karlitschek
Mar 15, 2023
Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Matt Barker of Jetstack
Mar 08, 2023
Bringing Hardware Design to The Software Space at The State of Open Con with Rob Taylor of ChipFlow
Mar 01, 2023
From Navy Seal to Entrepreneur with Josh Thurman
Feb 22, 2023
Gaining Trust through Transparency with Nikhil Nandagopal
Feb 15, 2023
From Closed Source to Open Source with Adi Gelvan of Speedb
Feb 08, 2023
Understanding the Legal Side of Open Source with Heather Meeker
Feb 01, 2023
Exploring the World of Product-Led Growth with Sam Richard
Jan 25, 2023
Bridging The Gaps Between Policy, Community, and Commerce in Open Source with Amanda Brock
Jan 18, 2023
Using Metrics to Keep Your Open Source Community Healthy with Georg Link
Jan 11, 2023
Reaping the Benefits of Community-Led Growth with Jonathan Reimer
Jan 04, 2023
Verbs Not Nouns: Writing Effective Documentation with Brian MacDonald
Dec 28, 2022
Developing Commercial Open Source Companies with Joseph Jacks
Dec 21, 2022
Investing in The Next Generation of Developers
Dec 14, 2022
Telling Fair Stories with a Full Perspective on Open Source with Brian Douglas
Dec 07, 2022
Building a Healthy Company with Matt Butcher of Fermyon
Nov 30, 2022
The Trifecta of a Successful Startup
Nov 23, 2022
Open Source is About the Masses with Fabien Pinckaers of Odoo
Nov 16, 2022
How Medusa is Becoming More Than an Open Source Shopify Alternative with Co-Founder Nicklas Gellner
Nov 09, 2022
Relating Tech to People through Technical Marketing with Michael Chenetz
Nov 02, 2022
The Gratification of Contributing to Open Source with Liz Rice
Oct 26, 2022
Building Open-Source Strategy for Enterprise Organizations with Andrew Aitken
Oct 19, 2022
The Relationship Between Open Source and Cloud Native with Randy Abernethy
Oct 12, 2022
Finding Unexpected Product-Market Fit with Ian Tien
Oct 05, 2022
Best Practices for Founding an Open-Source Company with Amanda Brock
Sep 28, 2022
The Open-Source Evolution of Python with Wes McKinney
Sep 21, 2022
Making AI Accessible to All with Braden Hancock
Sep 14, 2022
Building Open Source Communities at DBT Labs with Anna Filippova
Sep 07, 2022
How the Department of Defense Uses Open Source with Rob Slaughter
Aug 31, 2022
How Pantacor Fits into the Edge Continuum with Ricardo Mendoza
Aug 24, 2022
Open Source Licensing with Jeff Shapiro
Aug 17, 2022
From Open Source Project to Commercial Product with Webb Brown of Kubecost
Aug 10, 2022
Security and Freedom with Ev Kontsevoy of Teleport
Aug 03, 2022
The Ethics of Privacy with Cillian Kieran of Ethyca
Jul 27, 2022
Global Tech and Selling to Enterprise with André Christ
Jul 20, 2022
Edge Native and Customer Satisfaction with Keith Basil
Jul 13, 2022
Merging Docker and Mirantis and Partnering with Customers with Shaun O’Meara
Jul 06, 2022
Exploring the Risks of Single Maintainer Dependencies with John McBride
Jun 29, 2022
The Cloud Native Glossary and Linkerd with Catherine Paganini
Jun 22, 2022
Serverless, Cloud Native, and Koyeb with Yann Léger
Jun 15, 2022
Dirk Hohndel and Open Source Ecosystems
Jun 08, 2022
Passion, Marketing, and Communication with Romaric Philogène
Jun 01, 2022
Tailscale and Market Segmentation with Avery Pennarun
May 25, 2022
Marketing and Open Source with Kiersten Gaffney
May 18, 2022
Lessons from Sandeep Lahane
May 13, 2022
Threat Mapping and Striking with Sandeep Lahane
May 11, 2022
Lessons from Eric "The IT Guy" Hendricks
May 06, 2022
Technical Marketing and Open Source with Eric Hendricks
May 04, 2022
Lessons from Omri Gazitt
Apr 29, 2022
Cloud Native Authorization with Omri Gazitt
Apr 27, 2022
The Google Search for Data with Mark Grover
Apr 20, 2022
A How To Guide for Startups with Matt Leray
Apr 13, 2022
The Subtle Art of Coalition Building with Kit Merker
Apr 06, 2022
Plural’s Navigation of the Open-Source Ecosystem with Michael Guarino
Mar 30, 2022
Innovating on the Edge with Michael Tanenbaum
Mar 23, 2022
Turning Blame into an Opportunity to Learn with Lyon Wong
Mar 16, 2022
Building a Kubernetes Operations Company with Haseeb Budhani
Mar 09, 2022
Molding a Passion for Open Source into a Company with Andrew Rynhard
Mar 02, 2022
Collaboration and an Emphasis on Project Over Product with Open Telemetry
Feb 23, 2022
The Intersection of Developer Lead Companies and Capital with Tyler Jewell
Feb 16, 2022
RakN’s Focus on Infrastructure as Code Automation with Rob Hirschfeld
Feb 09, 2022
Moving from Open Source to a Commercial Endeavor with Sam Bhagwat
Feb 02, 2022
Making Data Transparent and Accessible with Avi Press
Jan 26, 2022
Rebranding to Reflect the Infrastructure with Alex Chircop
Jan 19, 2022
A Bird's Eye View of Open Source with Matt Yonkovit
Jan 12, 2022
Navigating Risks and Building Open Source Communities with Dawn Foster
Jan 05, 2022
The Evolving Job Market for Kubernetes Talent with Joe Bignell
Dec 29, 2021
DataStax and the Startup Mentality with Jonathan Ellis
Dec 22, 2021
Owning Your Slice of the World with Guy Podjarny
Dec 16, 2021
Investing In Early-Stage Enterprise Startups with Vidya Raman
Dec 08, 2021
Shifting Your Mindset with Tobias Kunze
Dec 01, 2021
Achieving the Impossible with Laurent Gil
Nov 24, 2021
The Keys to Creating Your Masterpiece with Marco Palladino
Nov 17, 2021
Contributing Your Open Source Project to CNCF with Ihor Dvoretskyi
Nov 03, 2021
Using Technology to its Fullest with Justin Borgman
Oct 27, 2021
Fueling Innovation Through Open Source with Tobi Knaup
Oct 20, 2021
Building a Vibrant Open Source Community with Armon Dadgar
Oct 13, 2021
Embracing the New Paradigm with Neil Cresswell
Oct 06, 2021
The Power of Computing with Michael Hyatt
Sep 29, 2021
Filling the Gap In the Market with JJ Guy
Sep 22, 2021
The Core Value of Your Business with William Morgan
Sep 15, 2021
Conducting Your Business Orchestra with David Friend
Sep 07, 2021
Creating an Open Source Business Model with Swaroop Jagadish
Aug 31, 2021
Building the Next Layer of Innovation with Dhiraj Sharan
Aug 25, 2021
Transitioning Your Career Focus with Anurag Goel
Aug 18, 2021
Starting and Scaling a K8s Security Company with Wei Dang
Jul 28, 2021
Introducing Cloud Native Startup
Jul 14, 2021
The Changing Role of Tech in the Enterprise with Abby Kearns
Jul 07, 2021
Understanding the Kubernetes Journey with Kelsey Hightower
Jun 30, 2021
Turning IT into a Profit Center with Mark Thiele
Jun 23, 2021
Building Community with Jana Boruta
Jun 02, 2021
Security Forensics in a Cloud Native Environment with James Campbell
May 26, 2021
Building on the Edge with Samy Fodil
May 21, 2021
Positioning Open Source: Rook
May 12, 2021
Moving Between Market Categories in Cloud Security with Augusto Barros
May 05, 2021
Choosing a Cloud Provider for Strategic Business Reasons with Evan Reiser
Apr 28, 2021
Positioning Open Source: The Evolution of CoreDNS
Apr 21, 2021
The Edge, the cloud and Kubernetes with Brian Gracely
Apr 14, 2021
Positioning Open Source: Prometheus
Apr 07, 2021
Connecting ‘legacy’ apps and cloud native apps with Chris Holmes
Mar 31, 2021
Cutting through the Multicloud Hype with Chris Psaltis
Mar 24, 2021
Security, Clouds and Open Source with Tzury Bar Yochay
Mar 17, 2021
Building a reliable, transactional cloud native database with Karthik Ranganathan
Mar 10, 2021
Hiring a Team for your Technical Startup with Natalie Ledbetter
Mar 03, 2021
What Does Cloud Freedom Mean with Sirish Raghuram
Feb 24, 2021
The Importance of Managing SaaS Applications with Shawn Lankton
Feb 17, 2021
Overcoming hosting challenges for OSS with Thomas Markey
Feb 10, 2021
Separating Compute and Storage with Ranjan Parthasarathy
Feb 03, 2021
The Business Implications of Open Source Licenses with McCoy Smith
Jan 27, 2021
Connecting Cloud Native Technology to Unique Business Goals with Bola Rotibi
Jan 20, 2021
Managing Data Locality with Oran Sears
Jan 15, 2021
Positioning for Startups in the Cloud Native Ecosystem
Jan 06, 2021
The Business of Cloud Native #30 with Jim Bugwadia
Dec 16, 2020
The Business of Cloud Native #29 with Krishnan Subramanian
Dec 10, 2020
Solving Application Networking Challenges with with Idit Levine
Dec 02, 2020
Positioning Open Source Projects with Sam Selikoff
Nov 25, 2020
Discussing Bloomberg’s Cloud Native Journey with Andrey Rybka
Nov 18, 2020
How Systematic Approaches Cloud-Native with Thomas Vitale
Nov 11, 2020
Discussing Forter with CTO Iftah Gideoni
Nov 04, 2020
Aligning Open-Source and Business Goals with Tobie Langel
Oct 28, 2020
Exploring Open-Source and Cloud-Native with Tracy Miranda
Oct 21, 2020
The Importance of OSPO with Nithya Ruff
Oct 14, 2020
Disrupting the Cloud Storage Market with Ben Golub
Oct 07, 2020
Securing the Cloud with Josh Stella
Sep 30, 2020
Cloud-Native Considerations for SMBs with Apurva Joshi
Sep 23, 2020
Enabling Cloud Native Environments with Gou Rao
Sep 16, 2020
Exploring Single Music’s Cloud Native Journey with Kevin Crawley
Sep 09, 2020
Navigating the Cloud Native Ecosystem with Harness Evangelist Ravi Lachhman
Sep 02, 2020
Simplifying Cloud Native Testing with Jón Eðvald
Aug 26, 2020
CERN’s Transition to Containerization and Kubernetes with Ricardo Rocha
Aug 19, 2020
Discussing the Latest Cloud Trends with Cloud Comrade Co-founder Andy Waroma
Aug 12, 2020
RVU’s Cloud Native Transformation with Paul Ingles
Aug 05, 2020
Vodafone’s Cloud Native Journey with Tom Kivlin
Jul 29, 2020
Cloud Costs: A Conversation with Travis Rehl
Jul 22, 2020
The Power of Aligning Engineering and Operations with Dave Mangot
Jul 15, 2020
Discussing Cloud Native Security with Abhinav Srivastava
Jul 08, 2020
Scaling in the Cloud: A Conversation with Jon Tirsen
Jul 01, 2020
Exploring 8x8’s Cloud Native Journey with Chief Product Officer Dejan Deklich
Jun 24, 2020
Why Companies Go Cloud-Native with Austin Adams and Zach Arnold
Jun 17, 2020
Exploring Ant Financial’s Cloud-Native Journey with Haojie Hang
Jun 10, 2020
Key Factors to Consider During Containerization with Travis Jeppson
Jun 03, 2020
The Kubernetes Learning Curve with Edgaras Apsega
May 27, 2020
Introduction to The Business of Cloud Native
May 08, 2020