open source
8 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 8, 2021 by Sahir Azam · across every show →
Everything said about open source, oldest first
Jan 8, 2021 bullish
Dec 7, 2021 bullish
Ghodsi: All proprietary software is vulnerable to disruption by open source
“In fact, I think open source has the potential to replace pretty much any software that's, Any proprietary software that exists on the planet today is, you know, in a really vulnerable state in the sense that it can be disrupted by an open source version, righ…”
Dec 7, 2021 bullish
Ghodsi: The SaaS model applied to open-source technology will dominate
“I think the SAS model applied to open source is gonna be really disruptive. And, you know, so people, because of this transition period, we had these on-prem open source vendors. People think maybe open source won't work in the future in the cloud, but I think…”
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Aug 9, 2023 neutral
Startups should avoid open-source unless target customers reject managed cloud services
“So I'd say that if you're starting from scratch in 2023, you should only ever consider doing both of these things at the same time. If your ICP that you just believe is really the sort of narrow set of potential customers out there that really need and want yo…”
Aug 9, 2023 negative
Pursuing open source and cloud SaaS simultaneously creates two distinct companies
“But the really worst thing about trying to do open source and also, of course, trying to build a cloud service, which you fundamentally need to do, we're at the SAS conference here in 2023, is that you're actually going to build two different companies, much l…”