Podcast Episodes

Straddling open source software and the hardware industry with Rob Taylor

Episode 264

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 crea…

Published on 11 hours ago

The double-edged sword of big initial customers with Taco Potze

Episode 263

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 conve…

Published on 1 week ago

Build for Dual Audiences with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz

Episode 262

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 t…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott

Episode 261

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 sour…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Building a Dual Growth Flywheel at GitLab with Nick Veenhof

Episode 260

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 ta…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Solving Universal, Persistant Problems with David Aronchick

Episode 259

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. 

Befo…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

David and Goliath in the CMS Market with Thomas Schedler

Episode 258

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…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Open Source Firmware for EV Charging Stations with Marco Möller

Episode 257

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 ope…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

AI-generated Code Copied from Open Source with Julian Coccia

Episode 256

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Julian Coccia, CTO of ScanOSS, about selling access to data while making open source software. Of course, we also talked about being an open sou…

Published on 4 months ago

How to be Successful when Donating a Project to the CNCF with Liz Rice

Episode 255

Today on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, which is now part of Cisco. We addressed two subjects: How to be successful as a company that donat…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago