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1 #11: From OJ Simpson Case to Best Selling Author - Marcia Clark Shares Latest Real Crime Book Release and How Resilience Is Key to Success and Reinvention 34:35
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LikedMarcia Clark, best known as the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, has become a trailblazer for women in law and beyond. Her journey from courtroom to bestselling author reflects her resilience and determination to redefine herself amidst intense public scrutiny. On this episode of Worth Knowing, Clark dives into her latest book, *Trial by Ambush*, which examines the 1953 Barbara Graham case—a story that highlights gender bias, media sensationalism, and the notion that all cases are subject to societal, cultural, and political winds. Clark shares how her experiences during the Simpson trial shaped her perspective on societal pressures and the role of women in high-stakes professions. Her reflections on how media, forensic science, and legal practices have evolved over decades offer valuable insights into the intersection of law and culture. This conversation is a compelling exploration of true crime, personal growth, and how Clark’s groundbreaking career continues to inspire a new generation of women to challenge norms and forge their own paths. Marcia Clark is a bestselling author and a criminal lawyer who began her career in law as a criminal defense attorney and went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A. District Attorney's Office in 1981. She spent ten years in the Special Trials Unit, where she handled a number of high-profile cases, including the prosecution of stalker/murderer Robert Bardo, whose conviction for the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer resulted in legislation that offered victims better protection from stalkers as well as increased punishment for the offenders. She was lead prosecutor for the O.J. Simpson murder trial. In May of 1997 her book on the Simpson case, "Without a Doubt," was published and reached #1 on the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists. In February 2016, Clark re-released the book with a new foreword. Resources Sign up for the Worth Knowing LinkedIn Newsletter to stay up to date: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/worth-knowing-7236433935503618048/ Follow Bonnie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-habyan/ Go to the Worth Knowing website: https://www.worthknowing.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…
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1 E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store 39:42
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRoman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly , the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale benefits. Their open source dragonflydb has 28K stars on GitHub. Dragonfly has raised $21M from investors including Quiet Capital and Redpoint. In this episode, we dig into: The challenges with Redis The users that have really benefitted from Dragonfly (high scale + real-time needs - gaming, B2C) The benefits of being multi-threaded How they got some of their bigger users / customers like Twilio, SoFi, and Spotify…
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1 E174: The SDF / DBT Acquisition (1 + 1 = 3) 39:43
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLukas Schulte is Co-Founder & CEO of SDF Labs , the developer platform that scales SQL understanding across organizations, which was recently acquired by data transformation unicorn dbt Labs . In this episode, he's joined by Anders Swanson , Senior Developer Experience Advocate at dbt, to discuss the acquisition and future of data engineering. In this episode, we dig into: How the acquisition happened, as well as the M&A process How dbt thinks about building capabilities internally vs. making acquisitions How the SDF platform will improve the lives of dbt users The most challenging parts about the integration What the future developer experience for data teams will be like A glimpse into the future of data engineering…
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Andrew Norris is Co-Founder & CEO of DevCycle , the leading feature flagging platform based on the OpenFeature project. OpenFeature provides a standard for feature flagging unifying tools behind a common interface and avoiding vendor lock-in at the code level. DevCycle is a product created by Taplytics , the platform for marketing and product teams to A/B test. In 2023, they raised $5M to scale DevCycle. In this episode, we dig into: The creation of DevCycle through insights at Taplytics Learning to sell to engineers (DevCycle) vs. marketing teams (Taplytics) The decision to keep Talytics going vs. focus solely on DevCycle Why engineers prefer open standards like OpenFeature How their GTM works alongside OpenFeature…
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1 E172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster 35:22
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear , the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote environment. Their project, mirrord , has 4K stars on GitHub and is loved by users at companies like SentinelOne, Flexport, and Run.ai . In this episode, we dig into: How traditional staging environments create friction for cloud developers Their unique approach that allows for concurrency - and educating the market on it How open source helped build trust with big, enterprise customers early The story behind their first big customer win Focusing on a killer, fast time to value implementation Introducing monetization early, and how their products align with open source mirrord…
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1 E171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects 40:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedManik Surtani is Head of Open Source and Bradley Axen is Principal Engineer at Block. Manik was key to launching Block's Open Source Programs Office and Bradley is a major open source contributor - including the project Goose which is Block's extensible AI agent project. It currently has over 11K stars on GitHub and has been used for a number of internal use cases at Block as well as by the general AI builder ecosystem. In this episode, we dig into: Block's history releasing and supporting open source projects, and how that led to the creation of the programs office How big companies like Block approach open source and come up with ideas for projects like Goose The Goose project and how it's different from other agent frameworks…
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1 E170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex 39:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedNikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex , the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars on GitHub and is a library to build full-stack web apps. Reflex has raised $5M from investors including Lux Capital. In this episode, we dig into: The power of deploying apps using only Python Balancing abstraction and code level access for users The challenges low code frameworks have had becoming production-grade The apps users are building with Reflex How he thought about Reflex Cloud Their vision to be as big as React…
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1 E169: Building New Standards for Observability - Lightstep & OpenTelemetry 38:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedBen Sigelman is the Co-Founder & CEO of observability platform Lightstep as well as Co-Creator of open source observability frameworks OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry . Lightstep was acquired by ServiceNow in 2021 and OpenTelemetry was released in 2019 and has since become the standard observability framework. In this episode, we dig into: The founding story for Lightstep - including the initial pivot into the idea The benefits Lightstep got from open sourcing OpenTracing The OpenTracing and OpenCensus merger into OpenTelemetry Why OpenTelemetry has been so widely adopted Ben's perspective on the many companies building with OpenTelemetry today How their team made the decision to take the ServiceNow acquisition Company building learnings around team building (& more!)…
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1 E168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB 39:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealDB , the next generation serverless cloud database for modern applications. Their open source database, also called surrealdb , has 30K stars on GitHub. SurrealDB has raised $26M from investors including FirstMark and Georgian. In this episode, we dig into: Taking a broad vs. niche approach to building a new database How coming from a non-traditional DB background helped Tobie take a new, first principles approach How graph databases best reflect how humans think The importance of design for infra products How enterprises vs. SMBs / individual users view their value How open source helped them develop trust with large companies Planning out their cloud offering…
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1 E167: Taking on Network Security with a Zero Trust Approach with NetBird 34:50
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMisha Bragin is the Founder & CEO of NetBird , the open source zero trust networking platform that allows companies and individuals to create secure private networks without the hassle of corporate networks. Their open source, also called netbird , has over 12K stars on GitHub and connects devices into a secure WireGuard-based overlay network. NetBird has raised $4M from investors including InReach Ventures. In this episode, we discuss: Pivoting away from their initial hardware-based approach How the growth in remote employees has driven demand Why VPNs needed to be reinvented Why they use the WireGuard protocol What's different about their approach vs. Tailscale Managing big and small users at the same time Why most technical founders should hire a technical marketer early…
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1 E166: Making Open Source Reliable & Secure with Fossa 40:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKevin Wang is Founder & CEO of Fossa , the product security platform that automates compliance & security across open source third party code, suppliers, and tools. In this episode, we discuss: Where Kevin's interest in open source started Learning to work with big enterprises The shift from scanning to fixing Repositioning from an engineering to security platform Resisting the market pressure to push hard into AI…
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Max Stoiber is Co-Founder & CEO of Stellate , the GraphQL edge platform recently acquired by Shopify. In this episode, we discuss: The Stellate journey from idea to initial traction to acquisition The market size (and limitations) for GraphQL, APIs, and DevTools How he ran a top-notch acquisition process for Stellate Why startups fail…
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1 E164: Taking on Auth0 with Open Source Zitadel 34:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedFlorian Forster is Co-Founder & CEO of Zitadel , the cloud security platform aiming to build the future of identity and access management. Their open source project, also called zitadel , provides identity infrastructure and has 10K stars on GitHub. In this episode, we dig into: The benefits of having an open source auth vendor Authentication vs. authorization Building the "GitLab for identity" Why customization matters for an auth product Demand for self-hosting options for auth Appealing to developers and security teams…
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1 E163: Using Feedback Loops to Optimize LLM-Based Applications 38:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedViraj Mehta is the Co-Founder & CTO of TensorZero which is an open-source infrastructure platform that creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications. Their open source project helps users turn production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models. In this episode, we dig into: The benefits of feedback loops for LLMs Helping their users choose the best underlying models for their applications "Recipes" as a potential monetization path The most common optimizations for LLM-based apps Educating users on what's possible with LLMs…
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Nathan Sobo is the Founder of Zed , the next-gen code editor that enables high-performance collaboration - powered by AI. Open source zed has 53K Stars on GitHub and is used by engineers at Vercel, Apple, Anthropic, and GitLab. Prior to founding Zed, Nathan created the editor Atom at GitHub which reached 1M+ active users. Zed has raised from investors including Redpoint and Root Ventures. In this episode, we dive into Nathan's deep history with code editors including the widely adopted GitHub editor Atom, the decision to make Zed open source (and the massive 10x growth that came from it), how AI changed their trajectory, why collaboration is core to becoming the defacto editor, anchoring on performance and responsiveness, how they're thinking about the commercial side of Zed & more!…
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1 E161: Reimagining Python Notebooks with Marimo 34:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAkshay Agrawal is the Founder & CEO of Marimo , the next generation Python notebook. Their open source reactive notebook for Python, also called marimo , has almost 9K stars on GitHub. Marimo has raised $5M from investors including AIX Ventures. In this episode, we dig into Akshay's love of building developer tools for data teams, his journey from PhD to founder, what a great developer experience means for data teams, why reproducibility was a key problem for them to solve, how he thinks about monetization when other notebooks like Jupyter don't focus on making money & more!…
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1 E160: Open Source Secrets Management with Infisical 39:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedVlad Matsiiako is CEO & Co-Founder of Infisical , the open source secrets management platform. Their open source project, also called infisical , has 16K stars on GitHub and helps users sync secrets across their teams and infrastructure. Infisical has raised $3M from investors including Gradient and YC. In this episode, we dig into their path from closed to open source, their big user wins (including government users), the importance of reliability for products in and around this category, the organic growth that came from their community, their AI strategy & more!…
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1 E159: Innovating on Distributed SQL Databases with Yugabyte 41:41
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKarthik Ranganathan is Founder & CTO of Yugabyte , the PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database for cloud native applications. Their open source database, also called yugabyte , has almost 10K stars on GitHub. Yugabyte has raised almost $300M and sits at a $1.3B valuation. They've raised from investors including Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed, and 8VC. In this episode, we dig into the enormous interest Yugabyte had at the onset as transactional databases were due for innovation, the key architecture choices they made, the initial launch, key early customer wins, the importance of positioning as a distributed SQL company, their evolving open source strategy, building alongside the Postgres community, the decision to bring on an outside CEO & much more!…
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1 E158: Open Source Diagramming and Charting with Mermaid Chart 40:47
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAndrew Firestone is CEO and Knut Sveidqvist is CTO of Mermaid Chart , the open source text-based diagraming software platform. The mermaid project has over 70K stars on GitHub and is an open source diagramming and charting tool. Mermaid Chart has raised $7.5M from investors including Open Core Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the mermaid project's 8 year journey, going from side project to company, working with GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij to bring Andrew in as CEO & more!…
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1 E157: Build Your Own Production-Grade AI CoPilots With Copilotkit 36:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAtai Barkai is Co-Founder & CEO of Copilotkit , the platform to build production-grade AI Copilots 10x faster. Their open source project, also called copilotkit , has almost 13K stars on GitHub and provides React UI + elegant infrastructure for AI Copilots, in-app AI agents, AI chatbots, and AI-powered Textareas. In this episode, we dig into Copilotkit's incredible open source growth trajectory, the importance of tutorials and templates to grow community in a new product area, understanding all of the user types and use cases people were using their open source for, competing with vertical copilots, the future of copilots and when AI becomes more autonomous & more!…
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1 E156: Code-First Product Integrations with Ampersand 25:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLauren Long is Co-Founder & CTO of Ampersand , the developer platform for native product integrations. Ampersand has raised $5M from investors including Matrix, Base Case Capital, Flex Capital, and 2.12 Angels. In this episode, we dig into their differentiation as a "code-first" product, why they focused on the GTM vertical to start (Salesforce was the first integration), why their CLI is open source but their orchestration layer is closed source, how being transparent on pricing has been a differentiator for them & much more!…
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1 E155: Taking on Elasticsearch - the ParadeDB Story 33:17
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedPhilippe Noël is Co-Founder & CEO of ParadeDB , the modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. They're purpose-built for heavy, real-time workloads and their open source project, also called paradedb , has over 6K stars on GitHub. ParadeDB has raised $2M from investors including General Catalyst & YC. In this episode, we dig into the benefits of connecting search directly to the database (ie. no ETL), the types of users / use cases that really benefit from ParadeDB (e-commerce, FinTech, etc.), the decision to focus on Postgres, making adoption super easy, Philippe's learnings as a second-time founder & more!…
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1 E154: Bringing OpenTelemetry to Mobile Observability 41:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedEric Futoran is Co-Founder & CEO of Embrace , the mobile observability platform built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace has raised almost $80M from investors including NEA, Greycroft & Eniac. In this episode, we dig into the creation of mobile observability as a category and how Embrace helped evangelize it, what makes mobile observability unique, why they open sourced their SDKs, how aligning with OpenTelemetry changed their trajectory, the difference between having product-market-fit and GTM-market-fit, shifting from just focusing on mobile teams to mobile + DevOps teams & more!…
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1 E153: Dead Simple Dev Environments with Daytona 39:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIvan Burazin is Co-Founder & CEO of Daytona , the open source developer environment management platform. Their open source manager, also called daytona , has 9K stars on GitHub. Daytona has raised $5M from investors including Upfront Ventures. In this episode, we dig into Daytona's plan to be the fastest growing cloud development environment, how consistent and frequent content has become a huge driver of their growth, how bringing successful DevTool founders as angels helped with initial credibility and growth, thinking about the user and buyer's motivations, open source license decisions and the future of open source licenses (MIT + Apache are the only true open source licenses in their perspective) & more!…
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1 E152: Taking on Bitly with Dub.co - an Open Source Alternative for Link Management 31:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSteven Tey is Founder & CEO of Dub.co , the open source link management infrastructure platform for modern marketing teams. Their open source project, also called dub , has almost 18K stars on GitHub and is used by teams at companies like Vercel, Raycast, and Perplexity. In this episode, we dig into starting Dub.co as a side project and how it ultimately turned into a company, their initial positioning as a Bitly alternative, their focus on great design and how that shows up in all parts of their product and marketing, how analytics unlocked much higher ACVs and value for customers, how getting a top Hackernews post helped drive early momentum, their vision to become an end-to-end attribution platform & more!…
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1 E151: Taking on DBT by Combining Data Transformation with a Query Engine 31:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLukas Schulte is Co-Founder and CEO of SDF Labs (Semantic Data Fabric), the data transformation layer and query engine platform. They're an open core company powered by the Apache Data Fusion query engine. SDF Labs has raised $9M from investors including RTP Global and Two Sigma Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the complications and pain points with the Modern Data Stack, shifting left with data (ie. moving more over to the client), competing with DBT by adding a query engine, why building in Rust was important, why their CLI is closed source, the importance of a strong partner strategy as a data company & more!…
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Sameer Al-Sakran is CEO of Metabase , the open-source analytics and business intelligence platform. Their open source project, also called metabase , has over 38K stars on GitHub. Metabase has raised $51M from investors including NEA, Insight and Expa. In this episode, we dig into the company's 10 year journey, what it means to have a "developer friendly analytics platform", eliminating the friction with BI by making Metabase super fast to get started with, keeping the product simple, juggling short-term execution with their long-term vision & more!…
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Stanislas Polu is Co-Founder of Dust , the platform for companies to create and operate custom AI assistants for a range of use cases. Dust has raised $20M from investors including Sequoia. In this episode, we dig into the diverse set of users and use cases for Dust, how Dust spreads within an organization, their unique approach to open source, competing with vertical AI agents, augmenting humans instead of replacing them, predictions on the future of the agent space & more!…
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1 E148: Software Refactoring in the Age of AI 30:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJonathan Schneider is Co-Founder & CEO of Moderne , the platform for code migrations. Moderne has raised up to a Series A from investors including Intel Capital and True Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the importance of software refactoring and the security and engineering challenges that come up when code isn't maintained, why they started with Java refactoring, their rewrite open source project, how the amount of code created with GenAI has made refactoring an even bigger challenge & more!…
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1 E147: The Over-complication of API Management - What Went Wrong? 39:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJames Perkins is Co-Founder & CEO of Unkey , the open source API management platform that helps developers secure, manage, and scale their APIs. Their project, also called unkey , has almost 3K stars on GitHub. Unkey has raised from investors including Essence VC, Sunflower, and The New Normal Fund. In this episode, we dig into the complicated API tooling landscape, getting their early start with crypto and AI companies, what great DevEx means to them (simplicity is key), their scalable pricing model, splitting work between Co-Founders, their expansion plan and how they plan on grow capabilities without over-complicating the product & more!…
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1 E146: Inventing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters 37:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLukas Gentele is Co-Founder & CEO of Loft , the platform engineering company behind "kubernetes virtualization" to reduce costs and create efficiencies for teams with high (and growing) kubernetes usage. They allow any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes from 10 to 10,000 engineers. Loft recently raised $24M led by Khosla Ventures and previously raised from investors including Fusion Fund. In this episode, we dig into the company's journey through a shift from being a PaaS ( devpod ) to virtualization of kubernetes ( vcluster ), the rapid feedback loop you get from having an open source-based company, why Lukas thinks open source founders should be more commercial from the start & more!…
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1 E145: Bootstrapping an Open Source Monitoring Platform 38:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAliaksandr Valialkin and Roman Khavronenko are Co-Founders of VictoriaMetrics , the open source time series database and monitoring platform built alongside their open source project, also called victoriametrics. In this episode, we discuss the limitations to Prometheus and how ClickHouse inspired the founders to build VictoriaMetrics, how open source helped them attract their early users and gain momentum, the importance of simplicity and saying no to feature requests that would complicate the product, their approach to an Open Core model, their unique view on funding and why bootstrapping has been an advantage for them and more!…
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1 E144: How to Straddle Developers and Security Engineers 40:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLars Kamp is Co-Founder & CEO of Fix , the continuous cloud security platform to help detect, prioritize, and remediate critical cloud risks using open source software like their inventory scanner. In this episode, we discuss the importance of getting CISOs involved early for solutions that touch developers and security teams, the importance of an amazing self-service experience for developer adoption, their focus on transparent pricing & more!…
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1 E143: Bringing Software Engineering Best Practices to Data 39:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTim Delisle and Nico Joseph are Co-Founders of FiveOneFour , the company attempting to bring a software developer-like experience to data and analytics stacks. Together, they're second-time founders who previously founded data integration company Datalogue, which Nike acquired in 2021. In this episode, we break down the software engineering practices that would benefit data teams, their approach to market education (ie. things like templates to get users started), why open source is a requirement for a product like this, where we are on the journey to democratize access to data, their approach to monetization & more!…
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1 E142: Redefining Self-Serve Analytics with Dremio 41:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTomer Shiran is Founder of Dremio , the data lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI based on open source frameworks Apache Arrow, which the Dremio team created, and Apache Iceberg . Dremio has raised over $400M from investors including Norwest, Redpoint, Adams Street, Sapphire, Insight, and Lightspeed. They are currently valued at $2B. In this episode, we dig into Tomer's journey from MapR to Dremio, his initial vision for making the data stack more accessible, their first breakthrough with Apache Arrow and a columnar-format approach, focusing first on project-market fit before monetization, adding support for Apache Iceberg, how they're using AI to improve user experiences & more!…
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1 E141: Building Companies on Open Source Standards - from Hortonworks to Mydecisive.ai 40:16
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAri Zilka is CEO of mydecisive.ai , the general-purpose observability engine built on OpenTelemetry. Ari was previously the CTO of Hortonworks which built products on top of open source Apache Hadoop and merged with Cloudera in 2019. In this episode, we dig into the similar patterns Ari sees between Hortonworks / Hadoop and mydecisive.ai / OpenTelemetry, why large enterprises don't want their data to be held hostage and are shifting towards OpenTelemetry, how open source switches costs from vendors to engineering, why he's focused on building the community before monetizing, his view on monetization ("the developer bakes you in, the operator pays for it"), why the "ops" side of "devops" carries the money, and the learnings from building Hortonworks that he's bringing into mydecisive.ai .…
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1 E140: Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption with Better Agentic Workflows 35:13
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMark Huang is Co-Founder of Gradient , the platform for enterprise agentic automation. Gradient recently open sourced their 4M context window finetune of Llama-3, which is the longest context window available today. Gradient has raised $10M from investors including Wing VC, Mango Capital, and Tokyo Black. In this episode, we dig into enterprise readiness for LLM-backed applications today, Gradient's approach to pushing context lengths for foundation models and the benefits to open sourcing their Llama-3 finetune model, their focus on healthcare and finance verticals, how they're finding their place in the noisy GenAI infra space & more!…
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1 E139: Taking on AWS with an Open Source Alternative 38:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedUmur Cubukcu is Co-Founder of Ubicloud , the open source and portable cloud that can reduce cloud spend by 3–10x. Their project, also called ubicloud , has over 3K stars and provides elastic compute, block storage, virtual networking, managed Postgres, and IAM services. Ubicloud has raised $16M from investors including 500 Global and YC. In this episode, we dig into Ubicloud's grand vision of building a cloud service provider, where they're starting, why open source is a massive differentiator for them & more!…
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1 E138: The Database Pioneer Behind Ingres, Postgres & DBOS 38:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMichael Stonebraker is a legendary database system pioneer as the founder of Ingres, Postgres, and now DBOS . His work while at Berkeley and then MIT has been central to many relational database companies. His new company, DBOS, has raised $9M from investors including Engine Ventures and Construct Capital. This episode is a masterclass on the history of database systems and digs into the creation of Ingres and Postgres, why he's always focused on commercial applications and specifically industrial companies as users of his systems, why he started DBOS as an operating system to make it easier to build, scale, and secure TypeScript applications & more!…
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1 E137: Monitoring Infrastructure with Chalk Marks 40:13
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJohn Viega is Co-Founder & CEO of Crash Override , the open source monitoring platform based on the Chalk project which has 22K stars on GitHub. Crash Override has raised $14M from investors including SYN Ventures, BVP & Firestreak Ventures. In this episode, we dig into what being "dev friendly" means, what their best performing content has been, standing out in the incredibly crowded security landscape & more!…
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1 E136: Creating the Vector Database for AI Application Developers 39:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJeff Huber is Co-Founder of Chroma , the open source vector database. Their open source project, also called chroma , has 13K stars on GitHub. Chroma has raised $20M from investors including Quiet Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. In this episode, we dig into why vector databases are important for AI applications & why AI workloads are different, how their partnership with LangChain helped with early growth, why data is really the only tool a user has to change modern AI's behavior & more!…
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John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew , the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew's main project, brew , is a wildly popular open source project with 40K GitHub stars and provides the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux). In this episode, we dig into John & Mike's history with Homebrew and their time together at GitHub, how Homebrew has kept projects simple over time and avoided feature creep, how Homebrew has managed to get a lot of value from contributors, how their ICP has shifted from mac admins to dev and security teams & more!…
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1 E134: Making Complex Data RAG-Ready with Unstructured 37:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedBrian Raymond is Founder & CEO of Unstructured , the platform to extract and transform complex data for use with every major vector database and LLM framework. Their open source project has 7K stars on GitHub and includes libraries and APIs that let users build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, and production machine learning pipelines. Today, they have over 6M downloads and 50K companies using their tools. Unstructured has raised $65M from investors including Bain, Essence VC, and Menlo Ventures. In this episode, we dig into Brian's process of talking to 100 data scientists before launching Unstructured, why the long tail of data matters for LLMs, competing with their own open source, why being a "boring company" is valuable for today's LLM stack, why they liked having government design partners, why world-class design & marketing are huge differentiators for open source companies & more!…
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1 E133: Reinventing Authorization with Google's Zanzibar Paper 39:25
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJake Moshenko is Co-Founder & CEO of AuthZed , the scalable authorization platform based on Google's Zanzibar white paper. Their open source permissions database spiceDB has 5K stars on GitHub and enables fine-grained access control for customer applications. AuthZed has raised $4M from investors including Work-Bench and Amplify. In this episode, we dig into the Zanzibar approach to auth, branding themselves as a database, building for big companies from the get-go, their Hacker News launch and how getting on the front page kickstarted their project's growth, monetizing early & more!…
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1 E132: From General Purpose to Specialized Databases 40:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJoran Dirk Greef is Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle , the open source financial transactions database. Their project, also called tigerbeetle , has over 7K stars and is a database designed for mission-critical workloads and performance. TigerBeetle has raised $6M from investors including Amplify. In this episode, we discuss why general purpose databases don't scale for high volume transactional workloads - and the need for specialized databases generally, open source vs. source available, the enterprise commercial stack of management, monitoring, security, and identity, their unique take on monetization & more!…
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1 E131: Why the Next Generation of Time Series Databases Will Be Multimodal 34:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedNiko West is Co-Founder & CEO of Rerun , the open source visualization engine for streams of multimodal data. Rerun has raised over $3M from investors including Costanoa. In this episode, we discuss how Rerun found early success in gaming, why building in Rust was important, how open source expanded the segments Rerun could serve, why they thought about monetization early, the importance of visual and video content & more!…
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