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E171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects

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Manik 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

  continue reading

173 episodes

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Manage episode 474976111 series 3438596
Content provided by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC). All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC) or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

Manik 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

  continue reading

173 episodes

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