Levine: No Open-Source Company Has Been Fully Displaced by Cloud Providers
Peter Levine · How to Build an Open Source Business · Oct 21, 2019 · at 8:52
Peter Levine, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, addresses fears that public cloud providers like AWS will co-opt open-source projects and ruin open-source businesses.
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“Can you name a single example of a company that's been fully displaced by a cloud provider? And the answer is no. And so I think that our concerns around large cloud vendors coming in and just co-opting an open source project and putting you out of business, the concern is probably greater than reality.”
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