Open Source Startup Podcast

Jake Moshenko, Co-Founder & CEO of AuthZed, discusses the Zanzibar approach to auth, building for big companies, Hacker News launch boosting growth, and early monetization strategies.

Joran Dirk Greef, Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle, discusses specialized databases for high volume transactional workloads, open source vs. source available, unique monetization strategies, and the enterprise commercial stack.

Niko West is Co-Founder & CEO of Rerun, the open source visualization engine for streams of multimodal data. Rerun has raised over $3M from investors including Costanoa. In this episode, we discuss how Rerun found early success in gaming, why building in Rust was important, how open source expanded the segments Rerun could serve, why they thought about monetization early, the importance of visual and video content & more!

Ketan Umare is Co-Founder & CEO of Union AI, the scalable MLOps platform focused on AI orchestration based on the flyte open source project. Union AI has raised $29M from investors including NEA & Nava Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the differences between Union AI and Airflow, what's unique about orchestrating AI workloads, bringing software engineering practices to AI & more!

Founder Sahil Chaudhary discusses the importance of education for GenAI infra companies, the benefits of synthetic data in moving from prototype to production, targeting AI native startups, and the challenges of fundraising for an AI startup.

André Eriksson, Founder & CEO of Encore, discusses their GTM strategy, adding Typescript support, and the use of Kubernetes. The podcast explores Encore's advantages over tools like Firebase, collaborative content creation, marketing strategies, and building a sustainable business with open-source.

Avery Pennarun is Co-Founder & CEO of Tailscale, the Wireguard-based VPN that reimagines secure, private networks. Tailscale has raised $115M from investors including Heavybit, Accel, CRV, and Insight. In this episode, we dig into what caused the team to reimagine zero trust security at the networking level, why they focus both on individual developers and large enterprises with a bottoms-up and top-down business model, why they leaned into the VPN comparison, how they create a personal tone for their blog & more!

Yingjun Wu is Founder of RisingWave, a new open source stream processing database. RisingWave has raised $40M from investors including Yunqi Partners. In this episode, we discuss RisingWave's approach versus Apache Flink and other stream processing frameworks, why stream processing is important for real-time monitoring use cases, why they initially focused on startups and how free support helped develop trust with these early users, key decisions around their product and why Postgres compatibility was crucial & more!

Andrew Hoh, Co-Founder of LastMile AI, discusses simplifying AI for developers, LastMile's open periphery approach to open source, Azure as the top cloud provider for AI support, and more. They explore challenges in ML engineering, the significance of open source projects in AI innovation, and the importance of AI Config for model configurations and experimentation.

Loris Degioanni is Founder & CTO of Sysdig, the observability and container security company behind the Falco and Sysdig open source projects. Both projects are widely adopted, with 7K GitHub Stars each. Sysdig is a $2.5B company that has raised over $700M from investors including Insight, Accel, Bain, DFJ, Goldman Sachs, Third Point & Permira. In this episode, we dig into Sysdig's roots in infrastructure and the pivotal decision to focus on security 2 years into the company journey, Sysdig's culture of experimentation (and some paranoia) that has helped make them successful, why they thought about their paid product early & much more!