“Open source was a very important part of the strategy overall because we wanted to be wherever the data is getting produced.“ — Garima Kapoor (@garimakap) The Business of Open Source:

“You should always be very honest to your community. You should always be very transparent to the community. And I think that is the foundation for running any successful open source business.” — Garima Kapoor (@garimakap) The Business of Open Source:

“You have to figure it out. You have to make mistakes. Just don't be afraid to make mistakes. Keep your experiments small. That would be my only advice.” — Garima Kapoor (@garimakap) The Business of Open Source:

“I think one of the biggest reasons why we have been successful in this space has been because of the open source route that we took for MinIO from day one.” — Garima Kapoor (@garimakap) The Business of Open Source:

“Data is a problem that is going to remain relevant & grow exponentially over a period of time. So we knew even if we spend like 10, 20, 30 years hacking on this problem, we cannot go wrong. So that's the reason why we started MinIO.”— @garimakap Listen:

This week, I’m chatting with Garima Kapoor (@garimakap), COO and Cofounder of https://t.co/rg1Ah8dfBP about how she and her founders used open source to crack the data storage market. The Business of Open Source:

“[Engineers] do not want to be marketed or sold to. ... What they want is they want value. They want to understand. So if you can showcase value and help them understand how your platform operates, you've won.” — @benhaynes The Business of Open Source:

"There's so much that individuals can do to contribute to open source, but we were seeing so many enormous companies that were not contributing in any way ... We wanted them to be [..] also providing to the future of this software." — @benhaynes Listen:

"This is a very formal project. We put a lot of focus on not bringing any technical debt into the software, making things feel extremely polished, and stable and resilient." — Ben Haynes (@benhaynes) The Business of Open Source:

"We run a SaaS company that has to be online 24/7. And so having people in Singapore, Malaysia, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, that's important to make sure that we have coverage around the globe." — Ben Haynes (@benhaynes) The Business of Open Source:

"[phpMyAdmin] is technical and you could never hand it off to an end client. So I said, why can't we just create this or recreate this rather, making it simple, safe and intuitive enough for anybody to use?" —@benhaynes The Business of Open Source:

Ben Haynes (@benhaynes), Founder and CEO of @Directus, joins me this week to chat about how he landed on a product-led growth strategy for his open-source project turned venture-funded company. The Business of Open Source:

“What I really missed being fully bootstrapped is you’re basically the only winner of your own success, and I think it’s very lonely.” — Peer Richelson (@peer_rich) The Business of Open Source:

“We had a lot of leverage. We were making revenue, we had happy users, and a really exciting product. It was almost stupid to not be raising.” — Peer Richelson (@peer_rich) The Business of Open Source:

“When you’re just starting out, be simple. The less words you need to explain your service, the better.” — Peer Richelson (@peer_rich) The Business of Open Source:

It’s a superpower to have a small group of users who really, really love your product, and then hundreds of thousands of people who test it once, find a bug, then churn, write tickets, and complain.” — @peer_rich The Business of Open Source:

“We wanted to work with users that care about the product. Especially when you’re early stage and the product is s**t, you want people who really believe in your mission and the product you’re building.” — Peer Richelson The Business of Open Source:

This week I’m joined by @peer_rich, Co-founder of https://t.co/yrIFYHuY9w. We dive deep into how https://t.co/yrIFYHuY9w positions itself against other scheduling tools and the blessing of launching with only a paid version. The Business of Open Source:

“We want them involved—the community. From my point of view, that’s a really big benefit just to interact with them and get feedback, get their ideas. We really have great communication with the community.” — Birthe Lindenthal The Business of Open Source:

“The most fun part in our organization is when we learn which new users and customers are working with the software. ... It’s a lot of NGOs, like Green Peace for example. That’s something that really makes us proud.” — Birthe Lindenthal Listen: