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Open Source Startup Podcast

E164: Taking on Auth0 with Open Source Zitadel

Feb 3, 2025
34:02

Florian Forster is Co-Founder & CEO of Zitadel, the cloud security platform aiming to build the future of identity and access management. Their open source project, also called zitadel, provides identity infrastructure and has 10K stars on GitHub.

In this episode, we dig into:

  • The benefits of having an open source auth vendor

  • Authentication vs. authorization

  • Building the "GitLab for identity"

  • Why customization matters for an auth product

  • Demand for self-hosting options for auth

  • Appealing to developers and security teams

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