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Commercial Open Source Business Models

on YouTube 19m
Talkat Open Source Leadership Summit 2019 · on Tuesday, 2019-03-12· at 15:20· The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom· [open-source, startups-and-business]

speaker

name:Sid Sijbrandij
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/G6ZupYzr_Zg
slides:none on file

summary

GitLab claims commercial open source can scale: 177% YoY growth to 500+ remote employees, millions of users and 2000 contributors while keeping core code free. The concrete business choice is buyer-based open core: four editions (Core free, three paid tiers $4–$99/user/month) organized by buyer persona, with 5x price steps between tiers to target individual devs, managers, and executives. Defense versus cloud forks centers on proprietary UI features for executives, bundling across the app, and sales motion differences.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 2:50Challenges faced by commercial open source software companies
  3. 5:15How to resist commoditization
  4. 8:18How we found our business model
  5. 11:42What is open source
  6. 13:07GitLab editions
  7. 14:21Buyer base opencore
  8. 17:04Conclusion

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