Open Source Business Strategy With Tyler Jewell ![rw-book-cover](https://wsrv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.transistor.fm%2Ffile%2Ftransistor%2Fimages%2Fshow%2F10529%2Ffull_1656512000-artwork.jpg&w=100&h=100) ## Metadata - Author: [[The Business of Open Source]] - Full Title: Open Source Business Strategy With Tyler Jewell - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/63f5dc05-9996-4263-bb46-2a6848d18271 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Exploring Open Source Companies with Managing Director Tyler Jewell • The Business of Open Source podcast explores different aspects of monetizing open source projects and the business value of open source. • Tyler Jewell has a long history with open source companies as an investor and CEO. • Tyler Jewell's experience with open source spans almost 15 years. Transcript: Speaker 2 Welcome to the Business of Open Source. Every week, we explore different aspects of the relationship between money and open source software, talking with industry experts about monetizing open source projects, building A company around an open source or several open source projects, and the business value that open source provides. Thank you for joining me. Welcome to the Business of Open Source. I am Emily O'Mear, your host, and today I'm chatting with Tyler Jewell, who is the managing director at Deltech Capital. He has a long and involved and interesting history with open source companies, and that's what we are going to be chatting about today. So thank you so much for joining me, Tyler. Speaker 1 Hi, Emily. Thank you for having me. It's good to be back. Speaker 2 Yes, I forget. You're one of very few repeat guests that I've had on this podcast. So thank you. Speaker 1 I am an alumni, yes. Speaker 2 So before we get started, I was actually helping you could just sort of run down for listeners. What is your experience working with open source companies, both as an investor and as a CEO? Speaker 1 My history with open source has run almost 15 years now. What's interesting is I started off on the technology side as a contributor to open source projects. When I had started a company called Code Envy in 2011, in 2013, we decided that we were going to make open source a core part of our strategy, and we took the underlying engine which made Most of our product and open sourced it as a project called Che. I founded that project. I ran the governance and maintenance team on that project. Eventually, that project got submitted and was accepted into an open source foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and it became Eclipse Che as well. Then I was a CEO of a company, WS02, very large company with almost a thousand employees around the world. They have a very broad product portfolio whose all their software is open sourced under the Apache license, and they don't have any open core platform that you typically hear about. So I was CEO of that and ran it at scale. Then I've been an investor as an angel in VC and a variety of companies where open source is a critical part of their strategy. This is either through Tova Capital, my previous company or my current one, Dell Technologies Capital. This includes Yugabyte, LightBend, Minio, Traverse, AppLand, Sauce Labs which is based upon salinity of open source. Just to tie it all off, I'm currently a board member with a company called LightBend. LightBend is the publisher of one of the world's largest distributed systems, open source projects called Aca, has 10 million downloads a month, and they just for a variety of reasons Change their license from an Apache license to a more commercially friendly license that is not considered open source, the business source license. So a very broad set of experiences, Emily. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/snip/53dbef2b-2d54-4155-98a1-4bbd1d3caef2))