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#88 Brian Douglas: Open Source and Sending the Elevator Back Down

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The Importance of Open Source in Entrepreneurship

I see a lot of folks who are just like, it's like a one or two person team for years. First two years, they're still trying to figure out the product. And first thing I did was before we ship code, let's go talk to customers and invite people who I thought were doing great things and open source to come chat with me. That drove us into like getting tons of inbound for VCs, which we didn't take VC money. It's not about just building open AI features on top. It's now you have to have a community,. You have to have all the stuff. The goal is like really just learn what the business is, like,

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