Open-core business models fail against AWS due to Amazon's manageability advantages
Amr Awadallah · LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah · May 1, 2023 · at 15:06
Amr Awadallah, Founder & CEO of Vectara and former co-founder of Cloudera, discusses the challenges open-core software startups face when competing against Amazon AWS.
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“Open core does not work against Amazon because open core, you're building the core open and then manageability, security, reliability. That's your pro pro Amazon is really good at that shit. Like that's the, they know how to do security. So, so it becomes very hard to compete with them.”
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