Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models

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Philippe Humeau is the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdSec, an open-source security company with a very unique business model that doesn’t fit the usual open source patterns. Philippe talked about how to focus on providing a fair exchange of value between maintainers / open source companies and users, and how to monetize a project that is providing value for free.

Philippe also talked about why he thinks open-source founders are under more pressure to get their business model right at the start, tips on making the right hiring decisions, and how to communicate with the community in an effective and transparent way. I also liked Philippe’s cynicism: why he views open source as primarily a pragmatic choice for his business, given the type of company he wanted to build.

Philippe also shares the logic behind his uncommon view that only making certain features available to paying customers isn’t a truly open-source business strategy.

Highlights:

I introduce Philippe, who gives some background on his career journey and what he does at CrowdSec (00:22)
Philippe explains why it seems that security companies are underrepresented in the open-source space (03:19)
The most common mistake Philippe sees when people start an open-source business (05:03)
Why Philippe believes that open-source companies are under more pressure to get their business model right the first time (09:26)
How Philippe came up with Crowdsec’s unique business model (16:15)
The pushback that Philippe got when he presented his business model initially (19:33)
Why Philippe views open source as a means to an end, and how that has affected his choices at CrowdSec (25:10)
The most interesting mistake Philippe has made since starting CrowdSec (27:28)
Why Philippe believes open source business models are more promising than closed source (31:19)
The advice that Philippe would give to an open source founder who is looking to build a successful company (34:11)
Why Philippe feels that having certain features behind a paywall is not a truly open-source business model (35:53)
Where you can learn more about Philippe and connect with CrowdSec (40:11)

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Philippe

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippehumeau/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/philippe_humeau
Company: https://www.crowdsec.net/

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Philippe Humeau on Creating Fair Exchanges in Open-Source Business Models

The Business of Open Source

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Philippe also shares the logic behind his uncommon view that only making certain features available to paying customers isn’t a truly open-source business strategy.

Highlights:

I introduce Philippe, who gives some background on his career journey and what he does at CrowdSec (00:22)
Philippe explains why it seems that security companies are underrepresented in the open-source space (03:19)
The most common mistake Philippe sees when people start an open-source business (05:03)
Why Philippe believes that open-source companies are under more pressure to get their business model right the first time (09:26)
How Philippe came up with Crowdsec’s unique business model (16:15)
The pushback that Philippe got when he presented his business model initially (19:33)
Why Philippe views open source as a means to an end, and how that has affected his choices at CrowdSec (25:10)
The most interesting mistake Philippe has made since starting CrowdSec (27:28)
Why Philippe believes open source business models are more promising than closed source (31:19)
The advice that Philippe would give to an open source founder who is looking to build a successful company (34:11)
Why Philippe feels that having certain features behind a paywall is not a truly open-source business model (35:53)
Where you can learn more about Philippe and connect with CrowdSec (40:11)

Links:

Philippe

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippehumeau/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/philippe_humeau
Company: https://www.crowdsec.net/

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In the last episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at KubeCon Salt Lake City, I spoke with Omri Gazitt , co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Aserto has two open source project that it maintains, one of which it donated to the CNCF. In this episode, we talked about the decision to donate a project to the CNCF — both what the process entailed and what is in for Aserto in having a project at the CNCF. But of course Aserto also has another project, Topaz , which it has not donated to the CNCF. We also talked about why Topaz wasn’t donated to the CNCF. A couple things to pull out of this conversation: The complicated calculus of deciding whether to donate a project to a foundation, and how the dynamics of the market change over the years and you have to think very critically about the specifics of your situation before making the decision to donate to a foundation How every company has slightly different market pressures — sometimes the market pushed you to donate to a foundation, sometimes the market doesn’t care. The importance of thinking not just about market share when you’re open source, but also how you are going to monetize! It’s possible to have vastly smaller market share but make vastly more money. Why being an open source company does not have to mean that your paid solution has to be cheaper than your competitors. Why you don’t have to start selling into startups — sometimes your best customers will always be either mid-market or enterprise from the very beginning. We talked about the panel I moderated at CloudNative StartupFest at KubeCon. If you missed it, here’s the link to see the replay. We also talked about Adam Jacob’s talk at the same event, which you can see here. If you’re building a company around an open source project and aren’t sure how to manage the relationship between the project and product, you might want to work with me or come to Open Source Founders Summit this May.…

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