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Volpi: The era of large closed-source enterprise software platforms is over

Mike Volpi · 20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market · Sep 18, 2017 · at 21:31

Mike Volpi, General Partner at Index Ventures, discusses structural shifts in open source enterprise software.

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“I generally think that we've seen the last of enterprise software companies, large enterprise software companies that are platforms that are closed source.”

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