All Episodes

Knowing Your Problem Space is the Moat with Adam Jacob

Open Source as a GTM Strategy with Dima Grossman of Novu

A Product Strategy Framework for Going from Closed to Open Source

Giving your Users a Well-Lit Path with Matt Watson

Interviewing your Target Customers to Accelerate Product-Market Fit

Making AI an Opportunity with Joshua Drake

From Closed to Open: Shortening Sales Cycles with Stephen Goldberg

Does AI Make Open Core Models More Difficult? with Sam Alba

Closed to Open Source Series: Doing Open Source "Right" with Ethan Arrowood

The Value of Code is Dropping to Zero with Yann Lechelle

Why the World Needs the Agentic AI Foundation with Manik Surtani

The AI-Induced Death of A Bug Bounty Program with Glauber Costa

Changing Your Price Anchor with Anais Concepcion

Earning Trust with Tom Hacohen

Go-To-Market for Open Source Companies with Quentin Sinig

Open Foundations with Or Weis

Straddling open source software and the hardware industry with Rob Taylor

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

Build for Dual Audiences with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz

Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott

Building a Dual Growth Flywheel at GitLab with Nick Veenhof

Solving Universal, Persistant Problems with David Aronchick

David and Goliath in the CMS Market with Thomas Schedler

Open Source Firmware for EV Charging Stations with Marco Möller

AI-generated Code Copied from Open Source with Julian Coccia

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

Open Source Manifestos with Vincent Untz

How a Rebrand Increased Sales with Lukas Gentele

Fundraising and M&A for Open Source Companies with Daniel Jarjoura

Products, consulting, and open source with Andrew Martin

How Technology Decisions Impact Growth with Misha Bragin

Open Source and AI Coding Assistants with Ty Dunn

The CFO's View of Open Source Companies with Eileen Doody and Karen Walker

Thinking Hard about your License Choice with Ivan Burazin

Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Ludovic Dubost

Building an Open Source Company for Long-Term Sustainability with John O'Nolan

The Complicated Calculus around Donating a Project to a Foundation with Omri Gazette

A Massive Head Start on Product Development with Open Source with Martin Mao

Finding Product-Market Fit with Wei Lien Dang

Maintaining Control of your Brand with Ramiro Berrelleza

KubeCon Special Episode: Changing Culture with Software with Cole Kennedy

KubeCon Special Episode: Managing the Tension between Product and Project with Bobby DeSimone

KubeCon NA Special Episode: The Connection Between Community Engagement and Revenue with Mark Fussell

ATO Special Episode on Product Strategy with Elias Voelker

Applying the lessons from Docker with Solomon Hykes

ATO Special Episode with Nithya Ruff

ATO special episode with Peter Farkas

Selling Peace of Mind with Bhaskar from YottaDB

ATO Special Episode with Tatiana Krupenya of DBeaver

Behind the Scenes of the Open Source AI Definition with Stefano Maffulli

Price Anchors of Zero Dollars with Anais Concepcion and Paul Fitzpatrick

Getting people to use the features you already have with Eric Holscher

Open source companies' reputation problem with Chris Holmes

Building your product with your customers with David Höck

Finding and losing product-market fit with Allard Buijze

Friendly Competition within the ClickHouse Ecosystem with Robert Hodges

Feature prioritization and customers' perceived value with Brad Micklea and Jesse Williams

The Importance of Clear Frameworks for Product vs Project with Jimmy Zelinskie

Product market fit for project and product with Galeal Zino

Complicated pricing and competition against the big players with Raphael Michel

Creating an ecosystem with Ashraf Samhouri

Testing 17 different income streams with Per Ploug Krogslund

Open source as a privilege of successful businesses with Tom Wilkie

Realistic pros and cons of working with foundations with Mike Milinkovich

Controlling your own narrative in a hot market with Vinoth Chandar, founder of Onehouse

Thoughtful open source strategies and nailing the OSS/product relationship with Joe Duffy

How to save your company with a license change with Tyler Jewell

Complementary Projects and Products with Justin Cormack

Excellent Open Source User Experiences with Karthik Ranganathan

Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson

Open Source Internal Startups with Saurav Pathak

Improving Your Value Prop Exponentially with Tanmai Gopal

Using Open Source for Trust, not Growth, with Reshma Khilnani

The Difference between Code and Product with Adam Jacob

A Buyer's View of Open Source Companies with Mark Boost

Trying All the Open Source Business Models with Brian Fox

Aligning with User + Customer Needs with Rod Johnson

Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara

Getting Your Pricing Model Right-ish with Alex Olivier

Nailing Customer Acquisition with Patrick Backman of MariaDB and OpenOcean

Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan

From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker

Delivering Value Quickly in the Observability Space with Pranay Prateek

OSFS Special Episode: Being a Strategic Acquisition Target as an OSS Company with Thomas Di Giacomo

Buyer-Based Open Core with Zach Wasserman

The Evolving Relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax

OSFS Special Episode: A Deep Dive into GTM with Frank Karlitschek

Staying Completely Open Source with Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona

How to decide what goes into project and product with Mike Schwartz of Gluu

OSFS Special Episode: Peter Zaitsev Talks Sales

Staying True to Your Community and Your Bottom Line with Garima Kapoor

Making the Critical Pivot from Closed to Open Source with Federico Wengi

Emily Omier and Remy Bertot Talk About Open Source Founders Summit

Timing the Evolution of a Successful Open-Source Project with Ben Haynes

The Human Cost of Increasing Freemium Users with Peer Richelsen

Balancing Community and Monetization in Open Source with Birthe Lindenthal

From 4,000 GitHub Stars to a Successful Open Source Business with Didier Lopes of OpenBB

How Useful Tools Create Brand Identity and Community with Loris Degioanni

The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt

From Open-Source Side Project to Enterprise SaaS Solution with Ben Rometsch

Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell

Creating a Greener World Through Open-Source Software with Nicolas Höning

Creating a Movement through Community with Jono Bacon

Mitigating the Risks of an Acquisition with Michael Cheng

A Second-Time Founder’s First Foray Into Open Source with Lars Kamp

Advice for Open-Source Founders from a Seed-Stage VC with Amanda “Robby” Robson

Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Community Data with Daniel Izquierdo

How Not to Make Open Source with Leszek Manicki

Getting The Most Out of Open-Source Events with Brian Proffitt

Embracing Product-Led Growth in Open Source with Kim McMahon

Shifting a Go-To-Market Strategy from Services to Product-Led with Alexander Krüger

A Case Against Starting Your SaaS as an Open-Source Company with Steven Renwick

Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models

Samuel Stroschein on the Challenges and Opportunities of Localization

Kevin Muller on Seeking Out Harsh Feedback and Commercializing too Soon

Venture Capitalist Tim Chen on the Nuances of Founding an Open Source Startup

CEO Franz Karlsberger on Joining an Open-Source Start-Up to Scale Growth

Two-time founder Vlad A. Ionescu on finding success after repeated entrepreneurial failures

Exploring the European Open Source Ecosystem with Markus Düttmann

Demystifying Code Bases with Shanea Leven of CodeSee

Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen

Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng

Finding the Right Co-Founder With Tanis Jorge

Striving for a Frictionless Developer Experience through AI Workflows with Kyle Campbell

Ethics In Open Source With Matt Butcher

Enhancing Your Contributor Growth Strategy With Dawn Foster

Developing Your Public Speaking Skills with Bart Farrell

Open Source Feature Management with Ivar Østhus

WebOps and Community Relations with Josh Koenig

Developing Open Source Coding Tools with Daniel Loreto

Building a Sustainable Platform With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

Investing and Monetizing a Start-up With Akriti Dokania

Cultivating an Active Community With Stefan Avram

Simplifying Authorization With Emre Baran

Open Source Business Strategy With Tyler Jewell

Pushing Boundaries and Removing Barriers with Ron Efroni

Demanding Something Better with Gael Duval

Challenging Yourself Through Open Source with Peter Zaitsev of Percona

Changing the World through Open Source with Frank Karlitschek

Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Matt Barker of Jetstack

Bringing Hardware Design to The Software Space at The State of Open Con with Rob Taylor of ChipFlow

From Navy Seal to Entrepreneur with Josh Thurman

Gaining Trust through Transparency with Nikhil Nandagopal

From Closed Source to Open Source with Adi Gelvan of Speedb

Understanding the Legal Side of Open Source with Heather Meeker

Exploring the World of Product-Led Growth with Sam Richard

Bridging The Gaps Between Policy, Community, and Commerce in Open Source with Amanda Brock

Using Metrics to Keep Your Open Source Community Healthy with Georg Link

Reaping the Benefits of Community-Led Growth with Jonathan Reimer

Verbs Not Nouns: Writing Effective Documentation with Brian MacDonald

Developing Commercial Open Source Companies with Joseph Jacks

Investing in The Next Generation of Developers

Telling Fair Stories with a Full Perspective on Open Source with Brian Douglas

Building a Healthy Company with Matt Butcher of Fermyon

The Trifecta of a Successful Startup

Open Source is About the Masses with Fabien Pinckaers of Odoo

How Medusa is Becoming More Than an Open Source Shopify Alternative with Co-Founder Nicklas Gellner

Relating Tech to People through Technical Marketing with Michael Chenetz

The Gratification of Contributing to Open Source with Liz Rice

Building Open-Source Strategy for Enterprise Organizations with Andrew Aitken

The Relationship Between Open Source and Cloud Native with Randy Abernethy

Finding Unexpected Product-Market Fit with Ian Tien

Best Practices for Founding an Open-Source Company with Amanda Brock

The Open-Source Evolution of Python with Wes McKinney

Making AI Accessible to All with Braden Hancock

Building Open Source Communities at DBT Labs with Anna Filippova

How the Department of Defense Uses Open Source with Rob Slaughter

How Pantacor Fits into the Edge Continuum with Ricardo Mendoza

Open Source Licensing with Jeff Shapiro

From Open Source Project to Commercial Product with Webb Brown of Kubecost

Security and Freedom with Ev Kontsevoy of Teleport

The Ethics of Privacy with Cillian Kieran of Ethyca

Global Tech and Selling to Enterprise with André Christ

Edge Native and Customer Satisfaction with Keith Basil

Merging Docker and Mirantis and Partnering with Customers with Shaun O’Meara

Exploring the Risks of Single Maintainer Dependencies with John McBride

The Cloud Native Glossary and Linkerd with Catherine Paganini

Serverless, Cloud Native, and Koyeb with Yann Léger

Dirk Hohndel and Open Source Ecosystems

Passion, Marketing, and Communication with Romaric Philogène

Tailscale and Market Segmentation with Avery Pennarun

Marketing and Open Source with Kiersten Gaffney

Lessons from Sandeep Lahane

Threat Mapping and Striking with Sandeep Lahane

Lessons from Eric "The IT Guy" Hendricks

Technical Marketing and Open Source with Eric Hendricks

Lessons from Omri Gazitt

Cloud Native Authorization with Omri Gazitt

The Google Search for Data with Mark Grover

A How To Guide for Startups with Matt Leray

The Subtle Art of Coalition Building with Kit Merker

Plural’s Navigation of the Open-Source Ecosystem with Michael Guarino

Innovating on the Edge with Michael Tanenbaum

Turning Blame into an Opportunity to Learn with Lyon Wong

Building a Kubernetes Operations Company with Haseeb Budhani

Molding a Passion for Open Source into a Company with Andrew Rynhard

Collaboration and an Emphasis on Project Over Product with Open Telemetry

The Intersection of Developer Lead Companies and Capital with Tyler Jewell

RakN’s Focus on Infrastructure as Code Automation with Rob Hirschfeld

Moving from Open Source to a Commercial Endeavor with Sam Bhagwat

Making Data Transparent and Accessible with Avi Press

Rebranding to Reflect the Infrastructure with Alex Chircop

A Bird's Eye View of Open Source with Matt Yonkovit

Navigating Risks and Building Open Source Communities with Dawn Foster

The Evolving Job Market for Kubernetes Talent with Joe Bignell

DataStax and the Startup Mentality with Jonathan Ellis

Owning Your Slice of the World with Guy Podjarny

Investing In Early-Stage Enterprise Startups with Vidya Raman

Shifting Your Mindset with Tobias Kunze

Achieving the Impossible with Laurent Gil

The Keys to Creating Your Masterpiece with Marco Palladino

Contributing Your Open Source Project to CNCF with Ihor Dvoretskyi

Using Technology to its Fullest with Justin Borgman

Fueling Innovation Through Open Source with Tobi Knaup

Building a Vibrant Open Source Community with Armon Dadgar

Embracing the New Paradigm with Neil Cresswell

The Power of Computing with Michael Hyatt

Filling the Gap In the Market with JJ Guy

The Core Value of Your Business with William Morgan

Conducting Your Business Orchestra with David Friend

Creating an Open Source Business Model with Swaroop Jagadish

Building the Next Layer of Innovation with Dhiraj Sharan

Transitioning Your Career Focus with Anurag Goel

Starting and Scaling a K8s Security Company with Wei Dang

Introducing Cloud Native Startup

The Changing Role of Tech in the Enterprise with Abby Kearns

Understanding the Kubernetes Journey with Kelsey Hightower

Turning IT into a Profit Center with Mark Thiele

Building Community with Jana Boruta

Security Forensics in a Cloud Native Environment with James Campbell

Building on the Edge with Samy Fodil

Positioning Open Source: Rook

Moving Between Market Categories in Cloud Security with Augusto Barros

Choosing a Cloud Provider for Strategic Business Reasons with Evan Reiser

Positioning Open Source: The Evolution of CoreDNS

The Edge, the cloud and Kubernetes with Brian Gracely

Positioning Open Source: Prometheus

Connecting ‘legacy’ apps and cloud native apps with Chris Holmes

Cutting through the Multicloud Hype with Chris Psaltis

Security, Clouds and Open Source with Tzury Bar Yochay

Building a reliable, transactional cloud native database with Karthik Ranganathan

Hiring a Team for your Technical Startup with Natalie Ledbetter

What Does Cloud Freedom Mean with Sirish Raghuram

The Importance of Managing SaaS Applications with Shawn Lankton

Overcoming hosting challenges for OSS with Thomas Markey

Separating Compute and Storage with Ranjan Parthasarathy

The Business Implications of Open Source Licenses with McCoy Smith

Connecting Cloud Native Technology to Unique Business Goals with Bola Rotibi

Managing Data Locality with Oran Sears

Positioning for Startups in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

The Business of Cloud Native #30 with Jim Bugwadia

The Business of Cloud Native #29 with Krishnan Subramanian

Solving Application Networking Challenges with with Idit Levine

Positioning Open Source Projects with Sam Selikoff

Discussing Bloomberg’s Cloud Native Journey with Andrey Rybka

How Systematic Approaches Cloud-Native with Thomas Vitale

Discussing Forter with CTO Iftah Gideoni

Aligning Open-Source and Business Goals with Tobie Langel

Exploring Open-Source and Cloud-Native with Tracy Miranda

The Importance of OSPO with Nithya Ruff

Disrupting the Cloud Storage Market with Ben Golub

Securing the Cloud with Josh Stella

Cloud-Native Considerations for SMBs with Apurva Joshi

Enabling Cloud Native Environments with Gou Rao

Exploring Single Music’s Cloud Native Journey with Kevin Crawley

Navigating the Cloud Native Ecosystem with Harness Evangelist Ravi Lachhman

Simplifying Cloud Native Testing with Jón Eðvald

CERN’s Transition to Containerization and Kubernetes with Ricardo Rocha

Discussing the Latest Cloud Trends with Cloud Comrade Co-founder Andy Waroma

RVU’s Cloud Native Transformation with Paul Ingles

Vodafone’s Cloud Native Journey with Tom Kivlin

Cloud Costs: A Conversation with Travis Rehl

The Power of Aligning Engineering and Operations with Dave Mangot

Discussing Cloud Native Security with Abhinav Srivastava

Scaling in the Cloud: A Conversation with Jon Tirsen

Exploring 8x8’s Cloud Native Journey with Chief Product Officer Dejan Deklich

Why Companies Go Cloud-Native with Austin Adams and Zach Arnold

Exploring Ant Financial’s Cloud-Native Journey with Haojie Hang

Key Factors to Consider During Containerization with Travis Jeppson

The Kubernetes Learning Curve with Edgaras Apsega

Introduction to The Business of Cloud Native