Henry: Cloud Providers Hold Inherent Advantage Monetizing Open Source Software
Alyssa Henry · No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry · Dec 14, 2023 · at 27:27
Former AWS executive Alyssa Henry explains why hyperscalers can monetize open-source software more effectively than independent vendors.
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“One of the things with the cloud providers too, is because you have sort of default customer demand, you launch one of these services using the open source. In many cases, you'll, you'll have existing customers that want to use it. And so then you're immediately getting customer feedback, you know, to help improve and tweak and then help tweak it on your infrastructure.”
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