Azam: Open source served as MongoDB's market-seeding and monetization foundation
Sahir Azam · How Sales and Product Really Should Work Together with MongoDB | SaaStr Software Community · Jan 8, 2021 · at 1:01
Sahir Azam, Chief Product Officer at MongoDB, outlines the historical trajectory of MongoDB's business model.
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“First and foremost, you know, we wanted to describe sort of how our company and our technology MongoDB really started with open source that sort of like a seeding mechanism for driving or adoption in the market. And building the foundation of the early phases of monetization for the company and going back, you know, five, six, seven years now.”
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