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EPISODE · Apr 5, 2023 · 22 MIN

Pushing Boundaries and Removing Barriers with Ron Efroni

from The Business of Open Source · host Emily Omier

From software engineer to leading developer products at Facebook, Ron Efroni was familiar with the challenges facing developers. His co-founder recognized the power of Nix to remove the boundaries of development, and together they started Flox to reduce the barriers to the adoption of Nix.In our final episode from the State of Open Con in London, Ron Efroni, CEO and Co-founder of Flox, joins me to discuss the future of Flox and Nix, the amazing community that keeps Nix moving forward, and advice for his former self as well as anyone interested in building an open source company. Highlights:Ron introduces himself, Flox, and Nix (0:50)Ron recounts the origins of Flox (3:32)Ron reviews the value add Flox provides (7:04)Leaving the control of the Nix roadmap to the community (10:30)Ron shares advice for himself 1.5 years ago (13:33) and...Advice for other open source founders (14:40)Why Nix is happy to have feedback and excitement from the community (17:56)Links:RonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronefroni/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ronefroniCompany: https://floxdev.com/Nix: https://nixos.org/

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