Open Source Crash Course | Colossus®

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.

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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