The Business of Open Source

Sep 16, 2026 — This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, co-founder and CEO of the Swamp Club. The first thing we talked about was When To Quit. System Initiative, Adam’s second company (after Chef), was one he ultimately shut down after...

Sep 10, 2026 — In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Dima Grossman, founder and CTO at Novu. For Novu, being open source is part of the go to market strategy. Dima says a big part of the motivation behind going open source to get the widest...

Aug 18, 2026 — In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Kris Zyp, SVP of engineering at HarperDB, in the third and final episode in the series about how Harper went from a closed-source company to an open source company. We talked about what Kris...

Aug 10, 2026 — In today’s episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Matt Watson, CEO of Fullscale, about a number of topics related to product development and how AI is changing that. Let’s start with a question: What is the difference between a software...

Aug 03, 2026 — This week on The Business of Open Source, I talk with Julien Verlaguet, the CEO of Skiplabs. Julien is a programming language guy, and we talked about what it means to maintain an open source programming language. We talked about what it means to...