Open Source Startup Podcast

By Robby & Tim (Essence VC)

Technology

What's Open Source Startup Podcast about?

The leading podcast on how to build a successful open source company.

Learn from the founders of HashiCorp, Chronosphere, Vercel, MongoDB, DBT, mobile.dev and more!

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Open Source Startup Podcast episodes:

06.27.2024
E139: Taking on AWS with an Open Source Alternative
Umur 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...
06.18.2024
E138: The Database Pioneer Behind Ingres, Postgres & DBOS
Michael 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...
06.14.2024
E137: Monitoring Infrastructure with Chalk Marks
John 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...
06.04.2024
E136: Creating the Vector Database for AI Application Developers
Jeff 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...
05.28.2024
E135: Riding the Homebrew Wave
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...
05.20.2024
E134: Making Complex Data RAG-Ready with Unstructured
Brian 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...
05.13.2024
E133: Reinventing Authorization with Google's Zanzibar Paper
Jake 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...
05.10.2024
E132: From General Purpose to Specialized Databases
Joran 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...
05.02.2024
E131: Why the Next Generation of Time Series Databases Will Be Multimodal
Niko 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...
04.30.2024
E130: Orchestrating AI Workloads with Union AI
Ketan Umare is Co-Founder & CEO of Union AI, the scalable MLOps platform focused on AI orchestration based on the flyte open source project. Union AI has raised $29M from investors including NEA & Nava Ventures. In this episode, we...
04.26.2024
E129: The Race to Help Build Custom AI Models
Sahil Chaudhary is Founder of Glaive AI, the platform to build models that are faster, cheaper and outperform general purpose models with the help of synthetic data. In this episode, we discuss why education is so important for GenAI infra companies...
04.22.2024
E128: Simplifying Complex Infrastructure with Encore
André Eriksson is Founder & CEO of Encore, the backend development platform for startups building event-driven and distributed systems. This is Andre's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast (first episode here) and, in this episode, we dig into...
04.17.2024
E127: Reimagining VPNs with Tailscale
Avery Pennarun is Co-Founder & CEO of Tailscale, the Wireguard-based VPN that reimagines secure, private networks. Tailscale has raised $115M from investors including Heavybit, Accel, CRV, and Insight. In this episode, we dig into what caused the team to reimagine...
04.15.2024
E126: RisingWave's Take on Launching a New Database
Yingjun Wu is Founder of RisingWave, a new open source stream processing database. RisingWave has raised $40M from investors including Yunqi Partners. In this episode, we discuss RisingWave's approach versus Apache Flink and other stream processing frameworks, why stream processing...
04.01.2024
E125: Let's Help Engineering Teams Productionize AI
Andrew Hoh is Co-Founder of LastMile AI, the AI developer platform for engineering teams to productionize LLM applications. They take an "open periphery" stance on open source with projects like AIConfig to help developers build AI applications. LastMile AI has...
02.26.2024
E124: Re-Focusing on Security - the Sysdig Story
Loris Degioanni is Founder & CTO of Sysdig, the observability and container security company behind the Falco and Sysdig open source projects. Both projects are widely adopted, with 7K GitHub Stars each. Sysdig is a $2.5B company that has raised...
01.29.2024
E123: Real-time Video & Audio Infrastructure for Conversational AI
Russ d'Sa is Founder of LiveKit, the real-time streaming audio, video, and data infrastructure platform for developers. Their open source project, also called livekit, provides the end-to-end stack for WebRTC and has over 6K stars on GitHub. In this episode,...
01.24.2024
E122: How Orkes is Building a Great Company on Conductor
Jeu George is Co-Founder & CEO of Orkes, the orchestration engine based on the Conductor project. Conductor was originally created at Netflix but they have since discontinued support of the project. The team at Orkes has forked the project and...
01.09.2024
E121: Coding in the Cloud with Coder
Kyle Carberry is Founder & CTO of Coder, the self-hosted remote development platform. Their project, also called coder, enables users to provision remote development environments via Terraform and has over 6K Github Stars. In this episode, we dig into the...
01.04.2024
E120: Building Better Python Tooling
Charlie Marsh is Founder & CEO of Astral, builders of next-gen python tooling. Their first project, ruff, is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust and has 22K GitHub Stars. In this episode, we dig into...
01.03.2024
E119: Building With Monorepos Using Nx
Jeff Cross is Co-Founder & CEO of Nx, the build system for maintaining and scaling monorepos, both locally and on CI. Their project, also called nx, has over 20K stars on GitHub. Nx has raised $25M from investors including a16z...
12.08.2023
E118: Building React Framework Gatsby
Kyle Mathews is Co-Founder & CTO of Gatsby, the front-end web development platform. Their open source framework, GatsbyJS, is widely adopted with 55K GitHub Stars. In Feb 2023, Gatsby was acquired by Netlify. In this episode, we discuss how GatsbyJS...
11.28.2023
E117: Taking on Datadog with Open Source Observability
Pranay Prateek is Co-Founder of Signoz, the open source observability platform with OpenTelemetry-native traces, metrics, and logs. Their open source project, also called Signoz, has over 15K GitHub Stars and helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems. Signoz has raised...
11.20.2023
E116: From Open Source DataHub to Closed Source Metaphor
Mars Lan is Co-Founder and CTO of Metaphor, the modern data catalog that is described as the "Social Platform for Data." Metaphor was created by the founders of ⁠DataHub⁠ which is known as the leading open source metadata platform. Metaphor has...
11.15.2023
E115: End-to-End AI Lifecycle Management with ClearML
Moses Guttmann is Co-Founder and CEO of ClearML, the end-to-end AI lifecycle platform for deep learning, machine learning, and Gen AI models. The company's project, also called clearml, provides experiment management, MLOps and data management capabilities and has 5K stars...
11.07.2023
E114: How OctoML Helps Developers Build with Llama 2 & Stable Diffusion
Tianqi Chen is Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of OctoML, the compute infrastructure platform for tuning and running generative models in the cloud. OctoML was founded by the creators of Apache TVM, the machine learning compiler framework for CPUs, GPUs, and...
11.01.2023
E113: Making AWS Security Dead Simple (and Open Source)
Toni de la Fuente is Founder of ProwlerPro, the cloud security platform built on top of Prowler, the open source security tool that helps companies implement security best practices including assessments, audits, and scanning. In this episode, we dig into...
10.19.2023
E112: How to Deploy GraphQL Backends Super Fast
Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO of Grafbase, the API platform for developers to deploy high performance, scaleable GraphQL APIs. Grafbase has raised $7M+ from investors including Next47 and Uncorrelated Ventures. In this episode, we dig into what a “unified data...
10.16.2023
E111: The Highs & Lows of Open Source with Adam Jacob of System Initiative & Chef
Adam Jacob is CEO of DevOps platform System Initiative and Co-Founder of infrastructure automation platform Chef. This is Adam's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast, and this episode is packed with learnings. We discuss the distribution benefits of...
10.12.2023
E110: Building Functionality for Terraform
Soren Martius is Co-Founder & CEO of Terramate, the infrastructure-as-code management platform that sits on top of Terraform. Their open source project, also called Terramate, has 3K GitHub stars and adds capabilities such as code generation, stacks, orchestration, change detection,...
10.04.2023
E109: Tracking The Open Source Metrics That Matter With Common Room
Linda Lian is Co-founder & CEO of Common Room, the community-led growth platform. Common Room has raised $53M from investors including Greylock and Index. In this episode, we discuss the DevRel role and Common Room's journey from being a DevRel tool...
10.02.2023
E108: LLM-Powered Search For Your Own Data
Amr Awadallah is CEO of Vectara, the LLM search engine that's powered by users' own data. Amr was previously the Founder & CTO of Cloudera and brings many learnings from that experience to Vectara, including what to open source vs....
09.27.2023
E107: What Does Life Look Like Post-SQL? Ask EdgeDB.
Yury Selivanov is the Co-founder & CEO of EdgeDB, the open-source database designed as a successor to SQL and the relational paradigm. Their open source graph-relational database, edgeDB, has a built-in migration system and a next-generation query language. EdgeDB has raised...
09.25.2023
E106: Defining Your Own Auth System with Oso
Graham Neray is Co-founder & CEO of Oso, the authorization-as-a-service platform that created open source oso - a batteries-included framework for building authorization into applications. Oso has raised $26M from investors including Felicis and Sequoia. In this episode, we dig into...
09.21.2023
E105: Bringing Great Developer Experience to Data Teams with Dagster
Nick Schrock is Founder of Dagster Labs & Creator of Dagster - the open source orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. Dagster Labs has raised just under $50M from investors including Sequoia, Index, and Georgian Partners....
09.11.2023
E104: The Future Is Browser-Based with Drifting in Space
Paul Butler is the Founder of Drifting in Space, the company focused on making browser-based applications accessible to everyone. They've created Jamsocket, a platform for building applications with session backends, and Plane, the open-source server that powers it. In this episode,...
08.29.2023
E103: Competing with CoPilot to Give Developers AI Superpowers
Varun Mohan is Co-founder & CEO of Codeium, the AI-powered coding platform for developers. In this episode, we dig into competing with a behemoth like GitHub Copilot, how developing their own infrastructure has enabled incredible scale, building a 30K person...
08.24.2023
E102: Building the Most Popular Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers
Pierre Burgy is Co-Founder & CEO of Strapi, the open source Node.js headless CMS. Their open source project has over 55K stars on GitHub and is 100% JavaScript, fully customizable, and built developer-first. Strapi has raised $45M from investors including...
08.22.2023
E101: Building the Fastest Growing Data Validation Library
Samuel Colvin is Founder of Pydantic, the wildly popular data validation framework and cloud services platform. Their open source Python library has over 15K GitHub Stars and millions of downloads per day. Pydantic has raised $4M from investors including Sequoia...
08.08.2023
E100: Reimagining Load Testing with Artillery
Hassy Veldstra is Founder of Artillery, the cloud-scale serverless load testing platform. The company's project, also called artillery, has almost 7K stars on GitHub. Artillery has raised over $2M from investors including YC. In this episode, we discuss building a...
08.07.2023
E99: Developing AI Agents with Generally Intelligent
Kanjun Qiu is Cofounder & CEO of Generally Intelligent, the platform to develop general-purpose AI agents that can be safely deployed in the real world. Generally Intelligent has raised $20M from investors including the Astera Institute & YC. In this episode,...
07.31.2023
E98: Creating the Time Series Data Category with InfluxData
Paul Dix is Cofounder & CTO of open source time series data company InfluxData. The company's open source datastore, InfluxDB, has 26K stars on GitHub. InfluxData has raised over $200M from investors including Norwest, Battery, and Sapphire Ventures. In this...
07.26.2023
E97: What Modern Application Delivery Looks Like With Loophole Labs
Shivansh Vij is Founder & CEO of Loophole Labs, the modern application delivery platform. They have a number of open source projects that provide primitives for modern development. In this episode, we dig into Loophole's projects around WASM and networking,...
07.24.2023
E96: Disrupting Massive Industries, From MongoDB to Viam
Eliot Horowitz is Founder & CEO of robot developer platform Viam and the previous Founder & CTO of developer data platform MongoDB. In this episode, we discuss Eliot's many learnings from being a multi-time founder including the importance of extremely...
07.17.2023
E95: Why Feature Flagging Should Be Open Source With Flagsmith
Ben Rometsch is Co-Founder & CEO of Flagsmith, the commercial open source real-time feature flagging platform. The Flagsmith project has almost 3K stars on GitHub and provides feature flagging and remote configuration services that can be hosted on prem or...
07.10.2023
E94: Creating Amazing Search Experiences with Meilisearch
Quentin de Quelen is Co-Founder & CEO of Meilisearch, the open source search engine platform. The Meilisearch project has 38K stars on GitHub and allows companies to quickly create amazing search experiences with features that work out-of-the-box. Meilisearch has raised...
06.23.2023
E93: Making Open Source Foundation Models a Reality with Lambda
Robert Brooks IV & Mitesh Agrawal are part of Lambda's founding team which is making GPUs for deep learning more accessible. Lambda has an initiative to make GPUs available for training an open source foundation model in support of the...
06.16.2023
E92: Application Delivery for Kubernetes with Akuity
Hong Wang is Founder & CEO of Akuity, the application delivery platform for companies building with kubernetes. Akuity works alongside the Argo Project which provides a suite of open source tools for deploying and running applications and workloads on Kubernetes. Akuity...
06.12.2023
E91: Plug & Play Permissions with Permit.io
Or Weis is Co-founder & CEO of Permit.io, the open source fullstack permissions as a service platform. The company's project, opal, is an admin layer for policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) and AWS' Cedar Agent and brings...
06.08.2023
E90: Building Open Source Startups with Abby Kearns
Abby Kearns has a long history in the open source ecosystem as the previous CTO of infrastructure automation platform Puppet, previous CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation, and an active investor and advisor to many open source startups. In this episode,...

What's Open Source Startup Podcast about?

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Open Source Startup Podcast episodes:

E139: Taking on AWS with an Open Source Alternative

E138: The Database Pioneer Behind Ingres, Postgres & DBOS

E137: Monitoring Infrastructure with Chalk Marks

E136: Creating the Vector Database for AI Application Developers

E135: Riding the Homebrew Wave

E134: Making Complex Data RAG-Ready with Unstructured

E133: Reinventing Authorization with Google's Zanzibar Paper

E132: From General Purpose to Specialized Databases

E131: Why the Next Generation of Time Series Databases Will Be Multimodal

E130: Orchestrating AI Workloads with Union AI

E129: The Race to Help Build Custom AI Models

E128: Simplifying Complex Infrastructure with Encore

E127: Reimagining VPNs with Tailscale

E126: RisingWave's Take on Launching a New Database

E125: Let's Help Engineering Teams Productionize AI

E124: Re-Focusing on Security - the Sysdig Story

E123: Real-time Video & Audio Infrastructure for Conversational AI

E122: How Orkes is Building a Great Company on Conductor

E121: Coding in the Cloud with Coder

E120: Building Better Python Tooling

E119: Building With Monorepos Using Nx

E118: Building React Framework Gatsby

E117: Taking on Datadog with Open Source Observability

E116: From Open Source DataHub to Closed Source Metaphor

E115: End-to-End AI Lifecycle Management with ClearML

E114: How OctoML Helps Developers Build with Llama 2 & Stable Diffusion

E113: Making AWS Security Dead Simple (and Open Source)

E112: How to Deploy GraphQL Backends Super Fast

E111: The Highs & Lows of Open Source with Adam Jacob of System Initiative & Chef

E110: Building Functionality for Terraform

E109: Tracking The Open Source Metrics That Matter With Common Room

E108: LLM-Powered Search For Your Own Data

E107: What Does Life Look Like Post-SQL? Ask EdgeDB.

E106: Defining Your Own Auth System with Oso

E105: Bringing Great Developer Experience to Data Teams with Dagster

E104: The Future Is Browser-Based with Drifting in Space

E103: Competing with CoPilot to Give Developers AI Superpowers

E102: Building the Most Popular Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers

E101: Building the Fastest Growing Data Validation Library

E100: Reimagining Load Testing with Artillery

E99: Developing AI Agents with Generally Intelligent

E98: Creating the Time Series Data Category with InfluxData

E97: What Modern Application Delivery Looks Like With Loophole Labs

E96: Disrupting Massive Industries, From MongoDB to Viam

E95: Why Feature Flagging Should Be Open Source With Flagsmith

E94: Creating Amazing Search Experiences with Meilisearch

E93: Making Open Source Foundation Models a Reality with Lambda

E92: Application Delivery for Kubernetes with Akuity

E91: Plug & Play Permissions with Permit.io

E90: Building Open Source Startups with Abby Kearns

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