Open Source Business Models

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a16z Opinion
Horowitz: Support and consulting are terrible open-source business models
“Open source in the nineties and early in the, you know, 2000, you know, open source business models were usually considered, okay, maybe you'd have some like really expensive enterprise features or sell soft, you know consulting and support. And those are terr…”
Eliot Horowitz Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 3:24 Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
MAD Insight
Kimball: Cloud services are cannibalizing the open-source business model
“Open source ate the software world, and now I think cloud services are very much cannibalizing the open source business model.”
Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 31:05 A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
MAD Opinion
Competing with Amazon is the biggest challenge for open source
“The issue, the single biggest issue facing open source business models is not I don't think hosted versus packaged like Red Hat. It's how do you deal with Amazon?”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 24:36 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

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