The Craft Of Open Source

• Matt Althauser & Alex Boswell, Founding Partners Of Polychrome

  Achieving your financial goals in the world of commercial open-source requires careful planning and strong commitment. Ben Rometsch is joined by Matt Althauser and Alex Boswell, founding partners of Polychrome, who share their journey from hitting their first $10k annual recurring revenue to reaching their first $1M ARR. Matt and Alex talks about the role of a dedicated community support in shaping their financial strategies and the importance of setting clarity on their target customers’ needs. They also reveal their secrets in building a well-rounded team and navigating the ever-changing licenses for open-source projects.

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• Jason Bosco, CEO & Co-Founder Of Typesense

  Ben Rometsch explores the superpowers of running an open-source startup with return guest Jason Bosco, CEO and co-founder of Typesense. Jason shares how their company achieved impressive growth by cultivating community building and collaboration through well-crafted one-source projects. He also talks about the role of open-source in creating engaging marketing strategies, speeding up feedback gathering, and streamlining hiring processes.

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• Kyle Johnson, Co-Founder Of Flagsmith

  Ben Rometsch chats with Kyle Johnson, co-founder of Flagsmith, about their 11-year journey together in the commercial open-source software (COSS) space. He talks about his transition from engineering to entrepreneur and back again by detailing how he navigated the evolution of his career. Kyle discusses how they have developed feature flagging as a response to the limitations of existing solutions. He also shares the proudest moments of his professional life, from managing a global remote team to offering advice to open-source project creators in creating customer-centric applications.

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• Malcolm Matalka: Co-Founder at Terrateam

  Interview With Malcolm Matalka: Co-Founder, TerrateamBen Rometsch chats with Malcolm Matalka, co-founder of Terrateam, to discuss the company’s inception and its eventual shift to open source. Together, they discuss how his frustrations with the click ops approach prompted Malcolm to create his own team to disrupt the system and pave the way for much more innovative methods. He opens up about the challenges they faced due to the licensing changes of HashiCrop and how it led to the creation of OpenTofu. The two also emphasize the undeniable dynamic of community-driven projects and how they offer people options and opportunities to adjust, transform, and collaborate.

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• Sam Stepanyan, OWASP London Chapter Leader & OWASP Global Board Member

  With almost every transaction being done through the internet, your personal information and finances must be protected at all costs from hackers and scammers. Therefore, cybersecurity is important now more than ever. Leading the charge in keeping the digital world safe and secure is OWASP, a non-profit organization working mainly on software security. Joining this episode is Sam Stepanyan from the OWASP London Chapter who emphasizes why cybersecurity must be accomplished at the start of development, not as an afterthought. He also explains why education on cybersecurity is severely lacking and what should be done to make it a staple subject in schools.

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