
Straddling open source software and the hardware industry with Rob Taylor
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Rob Taylor, CTO/CSO and founder of ChipFlow. Although ChipFlow is unambiguously a software company, it creates software that facilitate the creat...
10 Sep 202534min

The double-edged sword of big initial customers with Taco Potze
This week I’m back from vacation and I have a new episode of The Business of Open Source, with Taco Potze! Taco is the co-founder and CEO of Open Social. A couple interesting takeaways from our conver...
3 Sep 202539min

Build for Dual Audiences with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz, CEO and co-founder of Penpot. We started out by talking about the transition from services company to product company, how th...
2 Juli 202539min

Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked with Alya Abbott, COO of Zulip, about managing community contributors. This is a hot topic for open source companies — and for that matter, open sourc...
25 Juni 202536min

Building a Dual Growth Flywheel at GitLab with Nick Veenhof
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nick Veenhof, Director of Contributor Success at GitLab. GitLab has probably the most well-articulated open source strategy out there, and we tal...
18 Juni 202536min

Solving Universal, Persistant Problems with David Aronchick
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Aronchick, CEO and founder of Expanso, about luck and timing, building into universal truths and the reasons for Kubernetes’ success. Befor...
11 Juni 202545min

David and Goliath in the CMS Market with Thomas Schedler
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Thomas Schedler, co-founder and CEO of Sulu. Sulu is a small, bootstrapped company that spun out of an agency; Thomas was recommended by someone ...
28 Maj 202535min

Open Source Firmware for EV Charging Stations with Marco Möller
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Marco Möller, CEO and co-founder of Pionix. This was a fabulous conversation about a company that’s in a very different market from the usual open...
14 Maj 202533min



















