Open Source Startup Podcast
by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC)
Latest episode
E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen
E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen
About this podcast
The leading podcast on how to build a successful open source company.
Learn from the founders of HashiCorp, Chronosphere, Vercel, MongoDB, DBT, mobile.dev and more!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 203 episodes
- E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen · 37 minIn this episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Modem Co-Founder Ben Vinegar who's building the AI product manager for software teams. He was previously a longtime…
- E202: How the Largest MLOps Community Was Built · 36 minIn our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Demetrios Brinkmann, founder of the MLOps Community, the leading community for MLOps with over 90K developers in it today…
- E201: Building Your Agent Army with Paperclip · 39 minIn this episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Paperclip Co-Founder Dotta (Nate) whose viral agent orchestration platform has taken off over the past several months as…
- E200: Open Sourcing Warp’s Terminal · 44 minThis episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Warp founder Zach Lloyd as he shares the company story and decision to open source their core product: the…
- E199: Rethinking Infra-as-Code for the AI Era · 42 minThis Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Pavlo Baron from Platform Engineering Labs - creators of open source infra-as-code…
- E198: How Unikraft Launches AI Agents in · 42 minThis Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Dr. Felipe Huici, CEO of Unikraft - the compute layer for sandboxes, AI agents, or…
- E197: The Evolution of Building Open Source Businesses from HashiCorp to Flox · 40 minThis Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with James Bayer, Chief Product Officer at software development platform Flox. Flox's open…
- E196: Shifting Developer Portals to Agent Portals with Port · 39 minThis Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Zohar Einy the Co-Founder of agentic SDLC platform Port. They have a few open source…
- E195: Taking on the New AI Attack Surface With Manifold: Runtime, Skills & Supply Chains · 45 minThe latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Neal Swaelens and Oleks Yaremchuk, 2 of the Co-Founders of runtime agent…
- E194: Fal's Bet on Generative Media · 41 minThe latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Batuhan Taskaya, the founding engineer and current Head of Engineering at…
- E193: Managing 100s of Agents with Maestro · 39 minIn our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Pedram Amini, the creator of open source platform Maestro which allows users to run fleets of…
- E192: Creating Browser Use, Navigating Hyper Growth & Building in the Competitive Browser Automation Space · 41 minIn our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Magnus Müller, the Co-Founder & CEO of Browser Use - the platform that makes web agents come…
- E191: Super Fast Infra for Agents to Use the Internet · 36 minIn our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Catherine Jue, Co-Founder and CEO of browser infrastructure company Kernel. Their open source…
- E190: Open Sourcing AI Coding Platform Devin to Create OpenHands · 46 minIn our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Robert Brennan, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands - the open platform for cloud coding agents. Their open source project, also…
- E189: Why Your Backup Platform Should Be Open Source with Plakar · 40 minIn our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Julien Mangeard, Co-Founder of open source backup platform Plakar. Plakar's open source, also called plakar, has 1.5K…
- E188: Building (And Spinning Out) Open Source Projects With Informal Systems · 38 minIn our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Zarko Milosevic (CTO) & Arianne Flemming (COO) of Informal Systems. They've built a protocol design & cross-chain…
- Exclusive: BYOC Vendor Nuon Goes Open Source! · 42 minIn our latest episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Jon Morehouse, founder and CEO of infrastructure company Nuon which enables Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) for everyone…
- E186: Unlocking Your Unstructured Data with Typedef · 42 minIn our latest episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis, Co-Founders of Typedef. Both have deep backgrounds in data infrastructure…
- E185: The Challenges with Monetizing Open Source with the Creator of Rich + Textual · 34 minIn our latest episode, Robby and Tim talk with Will McGugan, creator of the Rich and Textual open source projects and founder of Textualize and Toad (not yet released), about the…
- E184: Building the Browser for AI - the Browserbase Story · 43 minIn this episode, we sit down with Paul Klein IV, Founder & CEO of Browserbase, to explore how his team is redefining the foundation of AI-driven browser automation. Browserbase…







