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From Open-Source Maintainer to Founder - Will McGugan

Jul 15, 2022
49:33

We talked about: 

  • Will’s background
  • Will’s open source projects
  • S3Fs and PyFile systems
  • Inspiration for open source projects
  • Will as a freelancer
  • Starting a company from a tweet (Rich and Textual)
  • Building in public (Will’s approach to social media)
  • The workforce and roadmap of Textualize.io
  • The importance of working on open source for Textualize employees
  • The workflow of and contributions to Textualize
  • Getting your first thousand GitHub Stars (going viral)
  • Suggestions for those who wish to start in the open-source space
  • Finding Will online


Links: 

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/willmcgugan
  • Textualize website: https://www.textualize.io/
  • Textualize GitHub: https://github.com/textualize


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