Investing in FOSS

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Claim: investors back OSS businesses that convert free projects into paid support and managed services, with unit economics that hit payback in about 120 days and revenue uplifts the talk cites around 20%. Criteria focus on reproducible engineering, a customer support operation and developer tools, not just code. Typical scaling milestones mentioned are roughly 50-person teams and long-term provenance (examples stretching back to 2004) as proof points.

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1. 0:00Introduction to FOSS
2. 3:57Benefits of open source
3. 7:55Investing in FOSS projects
4. 13:14Making money from FOSS
5. 15:12Q&A and closing

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