Free Software and Open Source Business

a16z Podcast

• Episode: Free Software and Open Source Business
• Website: a16z Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:62921190/sounds.rss
• Duration: 00:35:04
• Published: 2019-10-22 01:20

Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business. In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of HashiCorp; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; and a16z General Partner Peter Levine explain why it's necessary to turn some open source projects into businesses.

They also cover the most important questions for open source leaders to answer: How do you keep community engaged while building a business? What new opportunities does SaaS (software-as-a-service) present? And if you are a SaaS business, how should you approach cloud service companies, like Amazon Web Services (AWS)?