The Business of Open Source

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Lukas Gentele, the CEO and co-founder of LoftLabs.  Here’s some of the things we covered:  There are many open source projects at LoftLabs. We talked about what the team did differently the second time round, when they’d had the experience of creating the first pro

This week on the Business of Open Source I spoke with Daniel Jarjoura, an investor at Avolta who specializes in developer-facing companies, and who writes a newsletter on developer-facing startups and also collects data on investments in open source companies. We spoke about the overall state of investment for open sou

This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Andrew Martin, CEO and founder of Control Plane.  Control Plane is ultimately a consulting company, as Andrew introduced it. But the company also created and maintains KubeSec, and also has an enterprise version of Flux CD that it licenses. That gives this conversat

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Misha Bragin, co-founder and CEO of NetBird. This was also the first episode I recorded in 2025, which gives you an idea of how far in advance I’m recording episodes.  NetBird has an interesting origin story — it came out of an original idea to make a hardware prod

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ty Dunn, founder of Continue.dev, which is an open source AI code assistant. We had a fabulous conversation that touched on both the AI hype wave and why open source.  The first thing I’d like to touch on is why Continue.dev is open source, in other words, what bus

This week on The Business of Open Source I had a slightly different conversation: I spoke with the CFOs of two open source companies, Sysdig and Percona, to better understand what is different (and what is not) about financial management in open source companies. Karen Walker is the CFO at Sysdig, and Eileen Doody is t