David Cramer (CEO of Sentry) and Isaac Schlueter (CEO of npm) joined the show to talk about building businesses in open source, why they decided to turn their side projects into full-time work, how they experimented with finding steady sources of revenue, raising venture capital, working with investors and with community, and different company approaches to developing open source projects.

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Featuring:

• David Cramer – Website, GitHub, X
• Isaac Schlueter – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Sentry is a developer tool for detecting application errors, and npm is the default package manager for Node.js. Both started as open source projects, which David and Isaac have built into businesses.

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