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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everybody.

My guest today is Erica Brescia.

She is the co-founder and C-O of a company called Bitnami. Now, with over 1 million deployments per month, the company provides the largest source of applications and development environments to the world's leading cloud service providers, like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Platform. In 2016, Erica is the recipient of the Top Women in Cloud Award.

She also serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation and was an investment partner

in X Factor Ventures, which empowers female-led businesses to succeed.

Erica, are you ready to take us to the top?

Absolutely.

Thanks for having me.

You bet.

Thanks for coming on. So get into it quick for us.

What does Bitnami do? And what's your revenue model? How do you make money? Sure. So Bitnami is currently

known for this catalog of applications that we package up and deliver both through Bitnami.com,

as well as the leading cloud platform providers, as you mentioned before.

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