Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership From open source to commercially viable
Aug 9, 2021
01:59:52
This week Adam is joined by Asim Aslam, the founder of Micro - a new cloud platform entirely focused on the developer experience of consuming and publishing public APIs. Asim’s journey spans many years of open source work on Micro. His sole focus right now, is evolving that work into a commercially viable business. This episode is jam-packed with stories of great timing, grit, resilence, success and failure, and, of course, lessons learned.
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Show Notes:
- Micro (the platform)
- Micro APIs - Programmable building blocks for everyday use
- Go Micro - a framework for distributed systems development
- Asim and his team build Distributed to demonstrate what Micro is capable of (check it out on Product Hunt)
- OCS 2020 Breakout: Asim Aslam
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