Jeff Cross is Co-Founder & CEO of Nx , the build system for maintaining and scaling monorepos, both locally and on CI. Their project, also called nx , has over 20K stars on GitHub. Nx has raised $25M from investors including a16z & Nexus. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of using monorepos and the types of teams and codebases it works well for, crucible moments for the company (ie. when they went beyond the Angular framework), learning how to support large enterprise customers by...
Jan 03, 2024•41 min
Kyle Mathews is Co-Founder & CTO of Gatsby , the front-end web development platform. Their open source framework, GatsbyJS , is widely adopted with 55K GitHub Stars. In Feb 2023, Gatsby was acquired by Netlify . In this episode, we discuss how GatsbyJS was able to grow incredibly fast, what features matter most for front-end development frameworks (speed, approachability, etc.), learnings from going after a smaller portion of the market and over-hiring & more!...
Dec 08, 2023•36 min
Pranay Prateek is Co-Founder of Signoz, the open source observability platform with OpenTelemetry-native traces, metrics, and logs. Their open source project, also called Signoz , has over 15K GitHub Stars and helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems. Signoz has raised $7M from investors including SignalFire and Uncorrelated Ventures. In this episode, we discuss why observability is a good category to use open source, why Signoz started with tracing and then added on...
Nov 28, 2023•38 min
Mars Lan is Co-Founder and CTO of Metaphor , the modern data catalog that is described as the "Social Platform for Data." Metaphor was created by the founders of DataHub which is known as the leading open source metadata platform. Metaphor has raised over $10M from investors including Amplify, a16z, and Point72 Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the story behind Metaphor's creation - and why the team didn't build a managed service on top of DataHub, why Metaphor isn't open source, why sale...
Nov 20, 2023•49 min
Moses Guttmann is Co-Founder and CEO of ClearML , the end-to-end AI lifecycle platform for deep learning, machine learning, and Gen AI models. The company's project, also called clearml , provides experiment management, MLOps and data management capabilities and has 5K stars on GitHub. In this episode, we dig into the process of spinning out a project, the pros & cons of starting with a broad product offering, the closed vs. open source debate for GenAI, LLaMA 2 vs. GPT-4 & more!...
Nov 15, 2023•35 min
Tianqi Chen is Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of OctoML , the compute infrastructure platform for tuning and running generative models in the cloud. OctoML was founded by the creators of Apache TVM , the machine learning compiler framework for CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. OctoML has raised $132M from investors including Amplify, Addition, Madrona, and Tiger. In this episode, we discuss the importance of supporting multiple models, the advancements from LLaMA and Stable Diffusion this year, b...
Nov 07, 2023•43 min
Toni de la Fuente is Founder of ProwlerPro , the cloud security platform built on top of Prowler , the open source security tool that helps companies implement security best practices including assessments, audits, and scanning. In this episode, we dig into the importance of good documentation, the industry events that helped Prowler gain momentum, shifting focus from AWS only to all major cloud platforms, the need for patience with open source & more!...
Nov 01, 2023•38 min
Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO of Grafbase , the API platform for developers to deploy high performance, scaleable GraphQL APIs. Grafbase has raised $7M+ from investors including Next47 and Uncorrelated Ventures. In this episode, we dig into what a “unified data layer” is and why it’s needed, how they found their early adopters in industries like e-commerce and IoT, Grafbase "Launch Weeks" and more!...
Oct 19, 2023•40 min
Adam Jacob is CEO of DevOps platform System Initiative and Co-Founder of infrastructure automation platform Chef . This is Adam's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast, and this episode is packed with learnings. We discuss the distribution benefits of open source and why some products should be open source and others should not, challenges with the Open Core business model, HashiCorp's license change and the community's response to fork Terraform to create OpenTofu , and much more!...
Oct 16, 2023•43 min
Soren Martius is Co-Founder & CEO of Terramate , the infrastructure-as-code management platform that sits on top of Terraform. Their open source project, also called Terramate , has 3K GitHub stars and adds capabilities such as code generation, stacks, orchestration, change detection, and data sharing to Terraform. In this episode, we discuss building the Terramate community alongside the Terraform community, focusing 70% of the team's effort on Terramate cloud, how HashiCorp's license chang...
Oct 12, 2023•41 min
Linda Lian is Co-founder & CEO of Common Room , the community-led growth platform. Common Room has raised $53M from investors including Greylock and Index. In this episode, we discuss the DevRel role and Common Room's journey from being a DevRel tool to a GTM tool, how Common Room solves a top 3 problem for their users, and much more!...
Oct 04, 2023•44 min
Amr Awadallah is CEO of Vectara , the LLM search engine that's powered by users' own data. Amr was previously the Founder & CTO of Cloudera and brings many learnings from that experience to Vectara, including what to open source vs. keep proprietary. Vectara has raised $29M from investors including Race Capital. In this episode, we dig into the importance of ease of use and building for the average developer instead of the Silicon Valley developer, taking an "open periphery" approach to open...
Oct 02, 2023•44 min
Yury Selivanov is the Co-founder & CEO of EdgeDB , the open-source database designed as a successor to SQL and the relational paradigm. Their open source graph-relational database, edgeDB , has a built-in migration system and a next-generation query language. EdgeDB has raised $19M from investors including Accel, Nava Ventures, and Pear VC. In this episode, we discuss how they took a first principles approach to building a truly developer-first database (ie. building with postgres), the impo...
Sep 27, 2023•42 min
Graham Neray is Co-founder & CEO of Oso , the authorization-as-a-service platform that created open source oso - a batteries-included framework for building authorization into applications. Oso has raised $26M from investors including Felicis and Sequoia. In this episode, we dig into the first thing Oso founders built (a programming language created for authorization called Polar ), how they decided on the right open source license, how Oso is positioned in the highly competitive auth space,...
Sep 25, 2023•35 min
Nick Schrock is Founder of Dagster Labs & Creator of Dagster - the open source orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. Dagster Labs has raised just under $50M from investors including Sequoia, Index, and Georgian Partners. In this episode, we discuss how Dagster is bringing software engineering principles to the data space, what a great developer experience means for data engineers, how to think about launching the cloud version of your open so...
Sep 21, 2023•45 min
Paul Butler is the Founder of Drifting in Space , the company focused on making browser-based applications accessible to everyone. They've created Jamsocket , a platform for building applications with session backends, and Plane , the open-source server that powers it. In this episode, we dig into the future of browser-based tech and how industrial companies will be likely early adopters, the different components of the Drifting in Space platform & more!...
Sep 11, 2023•30 min
Varun Mohan is Co-founder & CEO of Codeium , the AI-powered coding platform for developers. In this episode, we dig into competing with a behemoth like GitHub Copilot, how developing their own infrastructure has enabled incredible scale, building a 30K person community , and much more!
Aug 29, 2023•38 min
Pierre Burgy is Co-Founder & CEO of Strapi , the open source Node.js headless CMS. Their open source project has over 55K stars on GitHub and is 100% JavaScript, fully customizable, and built developer-first. Strapi has raised $45M from investors including CRV, Index, and Accel. In this episode, we discuss the project's origins and impressive growth trajectory, their community-based approach to product roadmap, why they waited 5 years to monetize the project, why Pierre sees cloud as the bes...
Aug 24, 2023•40 min
Samuel Colvin is Founder of Pydantic , the wildly popular data validation framework and cloud services platform. Their open source Python library has over 15K GitHub Stars and millions of downloads per day. Pydantic has raised $4M from investors including Sequoia Capital and Partech. In this episode, we dig into Pydantic's growth curve (linear followed by explosive adoption), what a great developer experience means for them (almost B2C-like in the experience), how they engage with their communit...
Aug 22, 2023•37 min
Hassy Veldstra is Founder of Artillery , the cloud-scale serverless load testing platform. The company's project, also called artillery , has almost 7K stars on GitHub. Artillery has raised over $2M from investors including YC. In this episode, we discuss building a company around your own pain point, early signals that there was strong company potential with the project, finding growing communities to align with (in this case, Node.js) & much more!...
Aug 08, 2023•38 min
Kanjun Qiu is Cofounder & CEO of Generally Intelligent , the platform to develop general-purpose AI agents that can be safely deployed in the real world. Generally Intelligent has raised $20M from investors including the Astera Institute & YC. In this episode, we dig into the future for AI agents and where they fall short today, why they open sourced their research environment, the importance of market timing when launching a company, Kanjun's views on whether the Agentive AI space is ov...
Aug 07, 2023•40 min
Paul Dix is Cofounder & CTO of open source time series data company InfluxData . The company's open source datastore, InfluxDB , has 26K stars on GitHub. InfluxData has raised over $200M from investors including Norwest, Battery, and Sapphire Ventures. In this episode, we dig into building the category of time series data, how an open source company's monetization plan should tie to fundraising, some of the hardest decisions the team had to make during InfluxData's journey so far & more!...
Jul 31, 2023•42 min
Shivansh Vij is Founder & CEO of Loophole Labs , the modern application delivery platform. They have a number of open source projects that provide primitives for modern development. In this episode, we dig into Loophole's projects around WASM and networking, their unique hiring process, learnings for ambitious open source founders & much more!...
Jul 26, 2023•35 min
Eliot Horowitz is Founder & CEO of robot developer platform Viam and the previous Founder & CTO of developer data platform MongoDB . In this episode, we discuss Eliot's many learnings from being a multi-time founder including the importance of extremely fast response time to user questions, the benefits (and challenges) of building general purpose platforms, democratizing access to robots & hardware engineering through better developer tools, and much more!...
Jul 24, 2023•40 min
Ben Rometsch is Co-Founder & CEO of Flagsmith , the commercial open source real-time feature flagging platform. The Flagsmith project has almost 3K stars on GitHub and provides feature flagging and remote configuration services that can be hosted on prem or using their hosted software. In this episode, we discuss building a startup in a profitable way, why open source matters for feature flagging, finding direction with little signal early-on & much more!...
Jul 17, 2023•37 min
Quentin de Quelen is Co-Founder & CEO of Meilisearch , the open source search engine platform. The Meilisearch project has 38K stars on GitHub and allows companies to quickly create amazing search experiences with features that work out-of-the-box. Meilisearch has raised $22M from investors including Felicis and CRV. In this episode, we dig into the massive TAM for search, working with the Rust community, what an amazing developer experience means for a search product, Meilisearch's roadmap ...
Jul 10, 2023•39 min
Robert Brooks IV & Mitesh Agrawal are part of Lambda 's founding team which is making GPUs for deep learning more accessible. Lambda has an initiative to make GPUs available for training an open source foundation model in support of the broader ML community. In this episode, we dig into the GPUs for open source initiative, why open source matters for foundation models, the Lambda journey from the early days (well before generative AI!) & much more!...
Jun 23, 2023•42 min
Hong Wang is Founder & CEO of Akuity , the application delivery platform for companies building with kubernetes. Akuity works alongside the Argo Project which provides a suite of open source tools for deploying and running applications and workloads on Kubernetes. Akuity has raised $25M from investors including Decibel Partners and Lead Edge Capital. In this episode, we discuss the creation of the Argo open source project while the team was at Applatix, the decision to create a commercial co...
Jun 16, 2023•41 min
Or Weis is Co-founder & CEO of Permit.io , the open source fullstack permissions as a service platform. The company's project, opal , is an admin layer for policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) and AWS' Cedar Agent and brings open-policy up to the speed needed by live applications. Permit.io has raised $6M from investors including NFX. In this episode, we discuss positioning in a competitive market, product market fit vs. GTM fit & much more!...
Jun 12, 2023•42 min
Abby Kearns has a long history in the open source ecosystem as the previous CTO of infrastructure automation platform Puppet , previous CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation , and an active investor and advisor to many open source startups. In this episode, we dig into the Puppet journey, the role organizations like Cloud Foundry play in the open source ecosystem, her views on open source projects versus products, her advice to open source startups & much more! Video episode here...
Jun 08, 2023•40 min
