#202: Building a software business

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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One core question around open source is how do you fund it? Well, there is always that PayPal donate button. But that's been a tremendous failure for many projects. Often the go-to answer is consulting.

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0:00.0	One core question around open source is, how do you fund it? Well, there's always that PayPal
0:04.4	donate button, but that's been a tremendous failure for most projects. Often, the go-to answer is
0:09.9	consulting, but what if you don't want to trade time for money? You could take things up a notch and
0:14.3	change the equation and exchange value for money. That's what Enos Montani and her co-founder
0:19.7	did when they started Explosion.AI with
0:22.0	Spacey as a foundation. Listen to her story about building a sustainable software business on
0:26.8	open source and Python. This is Talk Pythonome. Episode a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries,
0:51.4	the ecosystem, and the personalities. This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
0:55.4	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M Kennedy. Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes
0:59.3	at talk python and follow the show on Twitter via at talk python. Enis, welcome to Talk Python.
1:05.2	Yeah, it's really nice to be here. Thanks. It's really excellent to have you here. You gave such an
1:09.7	excellent talk at Europython in 2018. And I just wanted to have you here. You gave such an excellent talk at Euro Python in 2018,
1:12.9	and I just wanted to have you on and talk about that and share some of those ideas.
1:16.7	I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, I think so too.
1:18.5	For sure. Before we dig into those, let's just get started with your background. How did you get
1:22.1	into programming in Python? Yeah, it's actually kind of interesting because I would say I don't build websites. And I did then decide when I was older that I
1:44.9	wouldn't want to do this professionally. Like for some reason, it never appealed to me. But I,
1:48.6	so I worked in the media, I worked in marketing, and then eventually ended back at programming
1:53.2	when I realized that I could combine all the things I liked into a job because I also did
1:58.3	linguistics in uni. So I was always interested in language.
2:01.7	Yeah, that's a really interesting background. You don't think of that as a normal path,
2:05.5	like marketing into software development, especially something like data science, right,
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