Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership Balancing business and open source
Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world’s most popular open source technology used to compose observability dashboards (we use Grafana here at Changelog). Raj and team are 100% focused on building a sustainable business around open source. They have this “big tent” open source ecosystem philosophy that’s driving every aspect of building their business around their open source, as well as other projects in the open source community. But, to understand the wisdom Raj is leading with today, we have to go back to where things got started. To do that we had to go back like Prince to 1999…
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Show Notes:
- What $24 million means for our open source community
- Grafana Labs raises $50 million to accelerate R&D investments in open source logs, metrics and composable observability
- Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform for your applications and infrastructure. Metrics, logs, and dashboards at scale.
- Grafana Enterprise includes access to enterprise plugins that take your existing data sources and allow you to drop them right into Grafana.
- Grafana Metrics Enterprise is a scalable, self-hosted Prometheus service that is seamless to use, simple to operate/maintain, and supported by Grafana Labs.
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