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Hosted by Emily Omier · technology · EN · 281 episodes
Whether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
The Business of Open Source is hosted by Emily Omier. The show has published 281 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Knowing Your Problem Space is the Moat with Adam Jacob" (16 September 2026, 52 minutes), "Open Source as a GTM Strategy with Dima Grossman of Novu" (10 September 2026, 40 minutes), and "A Product Strategy Framework for Going from Closed to Open Source" (18 August 2026, 32 minutes).
The Business of Open Source publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 281 episodes.
Booking probability for The Business of Open Source is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Business of Open Source requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Business of Open Source's contact route on record: verified email.
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Emily Omier hosts The Business of Open Source, a technology show with 281 episodes published.
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Episode #280
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob , co-founder and CEO of the Swamp Club. The first thing we talked about was When To Quit. System Initiative, Adam’s second company (after Chef), was one...
Episode #279
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Dima Grossman , founder and CTO at Novu. For Novu, being open source is part of the go to market strategy. Dima says a big part of the motivation behind going...
Episode #278
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Kris Zyp , SVP of engineering at HarperDB, in the third and final episode in the series about how Harper went from a closed-source company to an open source...
Episode #277
In today’s episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Matt Watson , CEO of Fullscale , about a number of topics related to product development and how AI is changing that. Let’s start with a question: What is...
Episode #276
This week on The Business of Open Source, I talk with Julien Verlaguet , the CEO of Skiplabs . Julien is a programming language guy, and we talked about what it means to maintain an open source programming language. We...
Episode #275
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with Joshua Drake , president and CTO of Command Prompt, about business management, bootstrapping versus taking investment, and AI, open source and open source...
Episode #274
This week on The Business of Open Source, I chatted with Stephen Goldberg , co-founder of Harper , about the process of taking Harper from a closed-source software company to a open source company. I already talked to...
Episode #273
Today on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Sam Alba , co-founder of Mendral , formerly of Dagger, and the first hire at Docker. We talked a lot about about how AI is changing the developer tools marketplace. If...
Episode #272
One of the myths that swirl around the open source company ecosystem is that all open source companies started as an open source project that then suddenly got traction, and followed by the founders frantically throwing...
Episode #271
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with Yann Lechelle , Executive President of :Probabl . Perhaps the most interesting part of the conversation was about whether or not there is a risk from...
Episode #270
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Manik Surtani , one of the co-founders of the Agentic AI Foundation and the CTO at the foundation. This is part of the series I’m working on about open source...
Episode #269
The Business of Open Source is back! I’m starting a series about AI and open source this week. I reached out to Glauber Costa , founder of Turso , after reading a post of his on LinkedIn about how bot-written PRs for...
Episode #268
There’s a new episode of The Business of Open Source today! It’s been a while. I talked with Anais Concepcion about a program she’s been testing at Grist to give free activation codes for the enterprise version of Grist...
Episode #267
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Tom Hacohen , CEO and founder at Svix. We kicked off the conversation by talking about why Svix is an open core company… but Tom still initially didn’t think he’d...
Episode #266
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Quentin Sinig , who has been the first “business” hire at three open source companies; Strapi, Kestra and now Pruna.ai. We covered a lot of ground in this...
Episode #265
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke to Or Weis , the CEO and co-founder of Permit.io. Or is a serial entrepreneur who has had a long career in developer tools. We talked about Permit’s relationship with...
Episode #264
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Rob Taylor , CTO/CSO and founder of ChipFlow. Although ChipFlow is unambiguously a software company, it creates software that facilitate the creation of...
Episode #263
This week I’m back from vacation and I have a new episode of The Business of Open Source, with Taco Potze ! Taco is the co-founder and CEO of Open Social. A couple interesting takeaways from our conversation: When...
Episode #262
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz , CEO and co-founder of Penpot. We started out by talking about the transition from services company to product company, how they decided to...
Episode #261
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked with Alya Abbott , COO of Zulip , about managing community contributors. This is a hot topic for open source companies — and for that matter, open source projects in...
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