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Open Source Startup 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!

Podcast · By Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC) · English · Official site

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Sep 9, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen (opens the original)

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    In 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 engineering leader at open source application monitoring software platform Sentry . Ben reflects on his journey from Disqus to nearly a decade at Sentry, where he became the company’s first VP of Engineering and worked across product development, SDKs, acquisitions, and incubation. He shares how the rapidly falling cost of softw

  2. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    E202: How the Largest MLOps Community Was Built (opens the original)

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    In 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. He's also a Member of the Non-Technical Staff at the Agentic AI Foundation which is an open foundation advancing adoption of leading open source AI projects. This episode explores what it really takes to build a thriving community in a world where social media no longer provides the fast, meaningful feedback it once d

  3. Episode · Aug 3, 2026

    E201: Building Your Agent Army with Paperclip (opens the original)

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    In 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 more teams adopt agents at work. Their open source, also called paperclip , has >75K stars on GitHub and is becoming the de facto way to manage a team of agents. This episode explores what it really means to build an “agent-led company.” Rather than thinking of AI agents as isolated tools, Paperclip treats them like employe

  4. Episode · Jul 27, 2026

    E200: Open Sourcing Warp’s Terminal (opens the original)

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    This 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 terminal. They now provide an open source agentic development environment (born out of the terminal) which is also called warp and has almost 65K stars on GitHub. Zach discusses his frustration with the traditional terminal and how it inspired him to rebuild it from first principles. Originally conceived before ChatGPT as a mo

  5. Episode · Jul 14, 2026

    E199: Rethinking Infra-as-Code for the AI Era (opens the original)

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    This 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 platform formae . This podcast explores why traditional infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Pulumi can struggle with state, drift, and the disconnect between code and real-world infrastructure. Pavlo shares lessons from building Instana and explains how those experiences led to Formae, an open-source approach t

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