What’s AI Doing for Me?
As a CPO, I’m "AI-pilled" but find LLMs struggle to impact my manager’s schedule. While ICs see 10x gains, leadership work is hard to automate.
Talend - the Next Cloud Success Story?
Talend did a fantastic job in their first arc - building an open-source community, monetizing its proprietary product, and going public. Their second arc is all about reinventing themselves as a cloud/SaaS vendor, and so far, it’s going much better than their stock would indicate.
5 Tricks to Bootstrap Your Open-Source Community
In conversations with founders, one question came up repeatedly:
"How do you build a community around an open-source project?"
Fundraising for Open Source Startups
Focus on finding project-market-fit before moving on to building a proprietary product. The proprietary product builds on the success of the project.
SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation
Blogging has been an exciting experience so far. After writing about a simple framework for building Open Core businesses, I wanted to explore why Open Core is the better model (compared to Red