Shah: Consulting is not a viable open-source business model
Viral Shah · A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing · Sep 28, 2017 · at 16:57
Viral Shah, co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing, speaks at Data Driven NYC about why consulting business models pull core developers away from product engineering.
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“Consulting is a way to build an open source business, but it's obviously not because you don't want your core devs to be consulting when you really need to be building the product.”
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