Venture capital meets commercial OSS
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.
We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.
Discussion
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Adam Stacoviak
Austin, TX
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog
2018-10-26T16:26:46Z ago
Gotta get those maintainers paid somehow ~> https://changelog.com/founderstalk/58
When Donald Fischer said…
…I don’t think he was referring to venture capital, but he did say “launch additional models” to support maintainers.
Kevin Ball
2018-10-27T03:11:01Z ago
Finished listening to this today - interesting area, but honestly a little disappointed there wasn’t more exploration of what those alternative OS business models might be
Adam Stacoviak
Austin, TX
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog
2018-10-29T21:10:04Z ago
We were disappointed as well, but FCC conflicts blocked deeper discussion and speculation.