open source

“Which is why I think open source is in my opinion, the global maximum, because if there's a company supporting it, I can automate a lot of my undifferentiated work away. If I'm a company and for whatever reason, if I need to do it on prem, I also have that opt…”

“Features that directly Enabled the end users of the open source product. We believe should ideally remain open source or be open source.”

“If you're a company using open source, you better allocate some hard dollars or you're allocating time or code back. You got to give back. You can't just be taking.”

“Every job I've gotten, every real job has been like, oh, they knew who I was because they used my code already. And so for anybody that says open source doesn't give you anything, it gives you quite a lot.”

“If we don't make money, nobody will make money in this industry because we will gut the whole thing. And that was the entire strategy of like, you know what? It's okay that Uber doesn't pass because Uber's not gonna pay anybody. And we've just removed that. An…”

“All the tech that makes Sentry valuable is permissive open source. And for example, we have this one technology used by every single competitor in the world, you know, from the biggest to the smallest. We give that away for free.”

“I think the problem is if we had waited years and we had just say worked on the open source version of Sentry, which is still exists roughly. It's self-hosted. I don't know. I don't think we ever would have gotten here.”

“So if we had open source, you would have a product with like You know, 30 buttons 70 toggles with, you know, 500 configuration options, and that just becomes a product not worth using.”

“What I learned was that for something that has a commitment to end user experience, you cannot do it with open source.”

“What was it that it took us probably several years to discover was basically product marketing. You know, in an open source context was, yeah, you gotta tell people why it's interesting.”