Chetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course - [Invest Like the Best, EP.188]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Investing, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of Prefect.io, an open-source software company where my family and I are investors, and Chetan is a partner at Benchmark Capital. Both are past guests and good friends. I asked them on to help the audience understand the open source software business model. I’ve been fascinated with this model in which companies give a huge chunk of their work and value away for free to a community of developers, and then make money by building additional tools, functionality, and services on top of their free and open platform. While this may strike you as a wonky discussion on a niche software topic, I think it is valuable for everyone because the ideas can be applied to more than just code. I view much of my own activity as open-sourcing investment research and knowledge. It is also important because much of the world’s technology is built on top of open source projects. I hope you learn something new about this emerging category. Please enjoy.

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Show Notes

(2:40) – (First question) – Originator business in open source software; Redhat

(5:51) – Why open source is valuable in building a business

(7:40) – Examples of the benefits of open source projects

(10:27) – Open source business models that produce the best results

(17:04) – Defensibility of open source companies

(25:02) – Mentoring younger founders on using open-source

(30:54) – The benefits of launching open-source

(36:41) – Building a digital community

(41:31) – Lessons from Open Source that can be applied to other businesses

(50:04) – The opportunity sets available in the open source space

(53:33) – Future of open source

(56:31) – Tobi Lutke Podcast Episode

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Cannellist.
0:02.1	Cannellist is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
0:06.4	I'd heard of Cannellist over the past few years and became more interested
0:09.5	after meeting the founder and CEO last year to pick his brain about SaaS businesses.
0:14.2	Founded by a former Bicide analyst who encountered friction in sourcing, building, and updating models,
0:19.6	Cannellist is now used by over 300 institutions, including the largest money managers in North America
0:24.9	and by a number of guests on the show.
0:27.2	With detailed company-specific models on over 4,000 public companies,
0:31.2	Cannellist platform lets analysts update their own models in seconds,
0:34.7	complete with KPIs and segment data, adjustments, and restatements.
0:38.4	Everything you want and expect in your own models on virtually every investable public equity.
0:43.4	If you're a professional equity investor and haven't talked to Cannellist recently,
0:46.8	you should give them a shout.
0:48.3	Learn more and try for yourself at cannellist.com slash patrick.
0:52.3	That's c-a-n-a-l-y-s-t dot com slash patrick.
0:57.8	Hello and welcome everyone.
1:02.1	I'm patrick ochanisie and this is Invest Like The Best.
1:05.2	This show is an open-ended exploration of markets, ideas,
1:08.6	methods, stories, and of strategies that will help you better invest both your time and your money.
1:13.8	You can learn more and stay up to date at investorfieldguide.com.
1:21.1	Patrick ochanisie is the CEO of ochanisie asset management.
1:25.0	All opinions expressed by patrick and podcast guests are solely their own opinions
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