The Business of Open Source Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen
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Jul 19, 2023 AI Snips
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Founders' Origin Story
- Heikki and his co-founders struggled with requiring CIO and operations approval to access infrastructure technologies.
- They created Aiven to make PostgreSQL and other open source data infrastructure easily accessible to developers worldwide.
Value Marketing and Sales Early
- Founders must recognize the importance of marketing and sales beyond just technical skills.
- Early hires in these areas brought vital knowledge and opened their eyes to unseen challenges.
Scaling Open Source Contributions
- Growing the company enabled increased open source contributions and formalizing support through an open source program office.
- Dedicated people help maintain viability and vitality of community projects Aiven depends on.