Open Source Startup Podcast

Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC)

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!

  1. E182: The Rise of ClickHouse

    לפני 6 ימים

    E182: The Rise of ClickHouse

    In the episode, we sat down with ClickHouse Co-Founder Yury Izrailevsky to unpack how one of the fastest open-source databases in the world became the analytics engine of choice for 2,000 customers including Harvey, Canva, HP, and Supabase. From its Yandex origins to powering AI observability, Yury shares how ClickHouse balances open-source roots, cloud innovation, and a remote-first culture moving at breakneck speed. ClickHouse's Series C valued the company at $6.35B earlier this year, and just yesterday they announced an extension to that round, just months after it was raised. In this episode, we dig into: Origins & Founding Story ClickHouse began as an internal project at Yandex to power a Google Analytics–style platform, focused on performance and scale. Open-sourced in 2016 - rapid global adoption laid the foundation for ClickHouse the company. Yury first discovered ClickHouse while at Google; impressed by its speed, he later co-founded the company in 2021 alongside Aaron Katz (ex-Elastic) and the original creator Alexey Milovidov. Why ClickHouse Stands Out Column-oriented, open source OLAP database designed for massive-scale analytical processing. Excels in performance, efficiency, and cost - ideal for large data volumes and real-time analytics (and now AI workloads). Architectural choices: Columnar storage = better compression and faster execution. Separation of compute and storage enables elasticity, scalability, and resilience in the cloud. Open Source vs. Cloud Open-source version offers freedom and flexibility. Cloud product delivers much lower total cost of ownership and fully managed experience. Architectural parity between the two ensuring no vendor lock-in for customers. Customers can run the same queries on both; most stay with cloud due to simplicity and cost efficiency. Use Cases & Ecosystem 4 main use cases: Real-time analytics Data Warehousing Observability AI / ML Workloads Company Building & Culture Fully remote from day one. Prioritized experienced, self-sufficient engineers over early-career hires. Built and launched GA version in less than a year - insane pace of innovation. Innovation & Community Monthly release cadence. Hundreds of integrations and connectors. Strong open-source and commercial community Advice for Founders Focus on what matters most Hire mature, independent thinkers. Move fast but maintain quality; ClickHouse Cloud achieved production-grade quality in record time.

    47 דק׳
  2. E181: Why Multimodal Is the Future of AI Data Workloads

    9 בספט׳

    E181: Why Multimodal Is the Future of AI Data Workloads

    Chang She is Co-Founder & CEO of LanceDB, the multimodal lakehouse platform. Their open source data format lance has over 5K stars on GitHub and is a modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implemented in Rust. LanceDB has raised $41M from investors including Theory Ventures, CRV, and Essence VC. In this episode, we dig into: Early focus: autonomous vehicles; solved real-time analysis limits with Lance format → 9,000% performance gain. Multi-modal AI taking off (vision, audio, text); Midjourney & Runway as pioneers; audio now a major category. How they built trust through open source. Integrated workflows (data prep + search + embedding) going beyond vector DBs; education needed to show full value. Cloud/serverless launch in 2023–24 enabled seamless local-to-production use. Future bets: audio infra, robotics, spatial reasoning; vector DBs risk irrelevance if they don’t evolve.

    37 דק׳
  3. E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story

    24 באוג׳

    E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story

    Ryan Djurovich is the Founder & CEO of Nadrama, the open source infrastructure automation platform that deploys containers instantly. In this episode, we dig into: Kubernetes challenges that still exist today – setup and operations are notoriously hard and complex. What great developer experience means to him – focused on making deployments super simple by streamlining infrastructure and common tasks. Core value of Nadrama – developers just want to deploy apps; Nadrama abstracts away infrastructure pain. His view on what being truly open source means (including using the Apache 2.0 license) Ryan's user discovery process - talking directly with as many users as possible, mining his network / folks he's worked with in the past, community events & meetups. Navigating the earliest days of Nadrama Security philosophy – believes in baseline security for all accounts (not just enterprise), informed by a Cloudflare background.

    33 דק׳
  4. E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)

    18 באוג׳

    E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)

    Morgante Pell is the Founder of Grit, the developer tool that puts software maintenance on autopilot and was acquired by Honeycomb in April 2025. In this episode, we dig into: The Grit product and how LLMs have made software maintenance much more efficient Launching GritQL - Grit's embedded query language for searching and transforming code Their early focus on the JavaScript community The motivation for Grit to open source How AI generated code has put pressure on software maintenance Where new problems have been created by AI-generated code The acquisition by Honeycomb - motivation, integration, and how the deal happened

    43 דק׳
  5. E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

    31 ביולי

    E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

    Emma Burrows is Co-Founder & CTO of Portia AI, the platform to build AI agents in regulated environments. Their open source Python SDK provides a developer framework for predictable and stateful agentic workflows. Portia AI has raised around $5M from investors including General Catalyst and First Minute Capital. In this episode, we dig into: Why they built an end-to-end platform from agent planning to deployment The focus on accuracy as their true north star metric Their paid contribution program How their found their initial ICP in regulated industries Why 2026 will be the year of agents Her best fundraising advice (hint: never really stop fundraising)

    33 דק׳
  6. E177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!)

    8 ביולי

    E177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!)

    Alan Braithwaite is Co-Founder & CTO of RunReveal, the security data platform with real-time monitoring, built-in detections, and AI-powered investigations. Today, they manage and analyze security logs for teams at Harvey, ClickHouse, Cloudflare, and Temporal. RunReveal has multiple open source projects including event stream processing library kawa and query language pql. RunReveal has raised from investors including Costanoa, Modern Technical Fund, and Runtime Ventures. In this episode, we dig into: Why today's modern security teams are rethinking data management The benefits of building RunReveal on ClickHouse How they worked with early believers / customers like Temporal Their open source strategy and building trust with the community through open sourcing components like their event processing library Their MCP server and enabling security teams to use AI to automate investigations (including the launch of their new remote MCP server)

    44 דק׳
  7. E176: Why All AI Agents Will Need Cloud Sandboxes

    23 ביוני

    E176: Why All AI Agents Will Need Cloud Sandboxes

    Vasek Mlejnsky is Co-Founder & CEO of E2B, the open-source runtime for executing AI-generated code in secure cloud sandboxes. Essentially, they give AI agents cloud computers. Their open source repos, particularly e2b which has 9K GitHub stars, have been widely adopted to help securely run AI-generated code. E2B has raised $12M from investors including Decibel and Sunflower. In this episode, we dig into: Why agents need a sandbox Building a new category of infra tooling, much like LaunchDarkly Some of their viral content moments - including Greg Brockman sharing their videos Figuring out the right commercial offering Why they don't agree with pricing per token Why moving from Prague to the Bay Area felt essential for them as founders

    37 דק׳
  8. E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store

    19 במאי

    E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store

    Roman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly, the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale benefits. Their open source dragonflydb has 28K stars on GitHub. Dragonfly has raised $21M from investors including Quiet Capital and Redpoint. In this episode, we dig into: The challenges with Redis The users that have really benefitted from Dragonfly (high scale + real-time needs - gaming, B2C) The benefits of being multi-threaded How they got some of their bigger users / customers like Twilio, SoFi, and Spotify

    40 דק׳
הצגת הכול (182)

אודות

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!

מידע

  • יוצרים
    Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC)
  • שנות פעילות
    2021 - 2025
  • פרקים
    182
  • סיווג
    תוכן הולם
  • זכויות יוצרים
    © 410155
  • אתר התכנית
    Open Source Startup Podcast

אולי יעניין אותך