No Investors. No Outside Board. Just Unraid — with CEO Tiffany Jones | Uncast (Part 1 of 2)

You’ve used Unraid. Now meet the person running the company behind it.

Ed Rawlings and Unraid CEO Tiffany Jones get into what the community actually wants to know — what the company stands for, what's coming to Unraid users soon, and what she'll protect no matter what. This isn't a product update. It's an honest look at the people, the culture, and the independence behind the OS you rely on.

Tiffany talks about growing up around Unraid, the four careers that led her to the top job, and how she and her father Tom split the business and the product. She takes the hard questions head-on: the worry that Unraid could drift the way other beloved products have, why the company stays bootstrapped with no investors, what “you own your license” actually means, and where a leaner, more accessible Unraid is headed — without taking anything away from the power users who’ve been here for years.

No VC. No private equity. No debt. A perpetual license you own outright. A team largely built from the community it serves. This is what’s behind the product.

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Part 2 will have Unraid creator Tom Mortensen and Unraid Director of Product Eli Bosley reveal what’s next for the product itself. You won't want to miss this one. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!

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Chapters

00:00 – Welcome back: meet Unraid’s CEO (Part 1 of 2)

00:44 – Seeing Unraid for the first time (Tom’s 2005 plasma TV)

02:58 – Film to CEO: the four careers that led here

07:38 – Does Tiffany run Unraid at home?

09:45 – The mission, and what “freedom” really means

12:28 – What Tom does now

15:23 – Battling against enshittification and aligning with users

17:18 – No investors, no debt: staying independent

23:50 – What the license change actually paid for

27:58 – Why Unraid stays a small, lean team

30:05 – Where your bug reports & feature requests go

32:10 – From community to staff: Larry’s story

34:05 – What makes the self-hosting community different

36:50 – Accessible ≠ dumbing it down

39:18 – What Unraid got wrong (and how they fixed it)

43:16 – Goals for the next era (team, UX, AI)

45:28 – Partnerships & the Signature Series (45HomeLab)

50:30 – How to get involved

52:36 – Coming in Part 2: Tom & Eli

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