Building GTM for an open source company
Learn about the best ways to build an OSS community and the main commercial business models to consider, with insights from Shay Banon of Elastic, Jonathan Ellis of DataStax, and more. GTM for an open-source company starts with prioritizing adoption and usage of your OSS project. The most successful OSS companies typically delay monetization in favor of driving ubiquity among a large, enthusiastic user base. This community of engaged users needs to be established prior to building typical traditional GTM functions around enterprise sales and marketing. The two early goals of GTM for any open-source company are to establish broad adoption and market credibility. Broad adoption requires building a large, engaged user base and is necessary because open-source monetization assumes most users will use the OSS for free and only some percentage of users convert to paying customers. Your user base must be large enough to support this model. Early market credibility is achieved when forwar
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