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Introduction
Patrick
My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of Prefect.io, an open source software company where my family and I are investors. And Chetan is a partner at Benchmark Capital. Both are past guests and good friends.
I asked them on to help the audience understand the open source software business model. I've been fascinated with this model in which companies give a huge chunk of their work and value away for free to a community of developers and then make money by building additional tools, functionality and services on top of their free and open platform. While this may strike you as a wonky discussion on a niche software topic, I think it is valuable for everyone because the ideas can be applied to more than just code.
I view much of my own activity as open sourcing investment research and knowledge. It's also important because much of the world's technology is built on top of open source projects. I hope you learned something new about this emerging category. Please enjoy.