open source

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2021 by Tanmai Gopal · across every show →

Everything said about open source, oldest first

Aug 23, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Successful commercial open-source companies globally can be counted on two hands
“The number of successful open source commercial companies are not too many in the world. That's not a SaaS playbook. It's not as well known as a SaaS playbook. It's very different. There are the number of open source commercial companies you can probably count…”
Tanmai Gopal Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 21:55 Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Opinion
Open source lacks enough commercial precedents to establish a standard playbook
“There's not enough open source companies in the world to really call it a playbook or a template quite yet. Maybe there will be one that emerges.”
Tanmai Gopal Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 45:34 Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
Aug 31, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Nadhani: FusionCharts Sold After 20 Profitable Years Due to Open-Source Headwinds
“So we ran it profitably for 20 years while you're selling. And the reason also we sold, we had just headroom, sorry, headwinds, which is Against open source, against the overall market itself sort of not growing as fast as we want, and we could see our competi…”
Pallav Nadhani Aug 31, 2024 ▶ 1:07:21 Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sharma: Government Tech Is Only DPI If It Enables Private Innovation
“They think every open source project is a DPI. They think every government tech is DPI, which is not true. Some government tech is DPI. If it enables private entrepreneurship or private innovation to happen on type on top, some open sources DPI. And all DPI is…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 14:13 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Sep 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Garg: Open-source models trail proprietary SOTA models by only 6-12 months
“I also think that open source has demonstrated that while it can't compete with the SOTA models, it's only six to 12 months away.”
Ashu Garg Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 22:59 GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Jindal: Enterprise developers prefer open-source tools over SaaS for data privacy
“What we realized is that it's the developer at the larger companies wants to use open source, and if you are a developer at a, let's say, born on the web company, you actually want more of a off the shelf self-sell product. It doesn't have to be open source, a…”
Manish Jindal Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 47:21 Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
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