What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story
Confluent's approach of growing from open source to commercial product has worked out well — the company defied conventional wisdom and still ended up thriving.
Cloudflare One Week in Review SSI Blog Post Digest Cloudflare One Week in Review Cloudflare held another innovation week from June 20 – 24, this time focused on Zero Trust solutions. Called Cloudflare One Week, the team introduced a number of new capabilities and aligned their marketing message around what is expected for a full-featured Zero Trust SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform.
Why Cloudflare Matters, The Absence of Gatekeepers, Promotion Versus Moderation
More on moderation, including why Cloudflare is important systematically, a reminder that there are no more gatekeepers, which means moderation is always reactive, and why Facebook and YouTube stil…
Open-source developers are rarely compensated relative to the impact that their code has. So how should we fund code that might be considered a public good? Gitcoin is a platform that funds open-source development, mostly in web3. It's funded about $64m in open-source development since 2017. Fund are allocated through grants, bounties, and contests. The funding model is unique as it relies on something called Quadratic funding0. Quadratic funding is where the amount received by a project is pr
We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit? So I thought I’d detail som…
The reaction to the Ukraine invasion has been a demonstration of tech capabilities; those capabilities may be the key to compelling China to pressure Russia.
Selling to developers is no longer a sure path to insane valuation multiples
Product-led growth is a big deal these days as startups are trying to find ways to grow without spending all their capital on advertising and sales staffing. But it's no panacea.
If businesses are subject to Aggregation Theory, then so are ideas: this is the root of the “The Current Thing” meme, and it should drive a re-evaluation of how we think about moderatin…