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Episode 188: Open Source Crash Course Invest Like The Best Episode 188 Hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy 08.25.2020 Jeremiah Lowin is the founder of Prefect.io, an open source software company. Chetan Puttagunta is a partner at Benchmark Capital. We cover the open source software business model, building an open source community, and future opportunities in the sector. This episode is brought to you by: Canalyst. This episode of Invest Like The Best is sponsored by Canalyst. Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. If you’re a professional equity investor and haven’t talked to Canalyst recently, you should give them a shout. Learn more and try Canalyst for yourself at canalyst.com/patrick. [00:02:40] – (First question) – Originator business in open source software; Redhat [00:05:51] – Why open source is valuable in building a business [00:07:40] – Examples of the benefits of open source projects [00:10:27] – Open

Introduction Patrick My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of Prefect.io, an open source software company where my family and I are investors. And Chetan is a partner at Benchmark Capital. Both are past guests and good friends. I asked them on to help the audience understand the open source software business model. I've been fascinated with this model in which companies give a huge chunk of their work and value away for free to a community of developers and then make money by building additional tools, functionality and services on top of their f

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