Data orchestration competitors primarily sell cloud hosting for open source projects
Blake Burch · How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data · Aug 21, 2023 · at 10:13
Blake Burch is the co-founder and CEO of Shipyard, discussing market competition and product positioning in data orchestration.
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“A lot of our competition in the data orchestration space is actually open source software that is trying to sell cloud hosted solutions.”
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