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The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew

Oct 31, 202447 minEp 106Transcript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew.

John has previously worked at GitHub and Twilio and is a contributor to Homebrew. Mike has also worked at GitHub as well as being the project lead and longest running maintainer at Homebrew.

 We dig into:

  • How Homebrew can trace its origins to a pub in London
  • How Apple actually work with Homebrew
  • How Homebrew managed to grow and scale up
  • How Workbrew are avoiding misaligned incentives so common in open source

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