Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #11
How Open Source Ate the World, scramble ratio and easy (network) asset discovery
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the >1,000 members of the Decibel community every month. Let’s dive in!
One Big Trend Worth Your Time
Open Source software startups offer early adopters and operators innovative solutions that are being adopted at a record pace. A driver of this speed of acceptance/adoption is the (simple) fact that open source technologies, by definition, are rigorously tested through the open source development process.
Early stage, open source, startups boast THOUSANDS of customers. This traction builds credibility, speeds adoption and attracts even more early adopters looking for quick wins in enhanced productivity, lower costs and creative problem solving. From new ways to leverage (big) data (Cube) to orchestrating Kubernetes-native application delivery (Akuity), these solutions are used by enterprise companies including Google, Tesla, GitHub, and Intuit.
Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power
HashiCorp’s IPO places it among the most richly valued open source tech companies
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
An Inside Look at Innovation
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Decibel Friends and Family Update
🎉 Congratulations…
Devon Rollins promoted to VP of Cyber Engineering and Machine Learning at Capital One
Peeyush Patel adds CISO to his CIO title at Careem
Chris Black joins Soluna as Lead Full Stack Developer
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The Credo AI team for the profiled in Forbes, Navrina Singh Founded Credo AI To Align AI With Human Values
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Stacey