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Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland. As software becomes core to

every industry, there is a commensurate need for more and more software development across

practically every department and a company. But as anyone who has tried to get quality software

developed knows, that has given rise to a supply and demand problem.

Leveraging open source software is a big part of the solution to that problem, but venturing

into the open source world raises all sorts of questions for most companies. For example,

how do you engage as a company in the open source community? What are your obligations to

the project? And if you are

hiring a development team, what ought you to be looking for to get the best developers? And on the

flip side, what are the developers looking for? Stephen Sinovsky leads a discussion from the firm's

2015 Tech Summit on the future of software development, where he digs into all those questions with

the panel that includes Roger Dickey, founder and CEO of Gigster, Slack CMO Bill Macyt, GitHub

Director of Field Services Matthew McCullough, and Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Stack Overflow.

Steven Sinovsky starts things off.

The panel today is about the future of software development and not just for IT.

Sorry, didn't mean it in any negative way.

But one of the things that's just so fascinating is that we're in this time when we both have an

incredible surplus of software, the ability to

download or to use SaaS applications and to roll them out no matter where you are in an

organization, public and private, clouds and the like. And at the same time, we have this incredible

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