Cloudera refuses to acquire companies or products that compete with open source
Mike Olson · Mike Olson, Cloudera // The Cloudera Story (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Dec 18, 2014 · at 32:15
Mike Olson, co-founder and Chairman of Cloudera, outlines Cloudera's M&A strategy regarding proprietary IP differentiation vs. open-source ecosystems.
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“So in general, we won't acquire stuff that competes with existing open source, because that would be crazy, right?”
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