Cloud Native StartupFest NA 2024
2024-11-12
Salt Lake City, United States
who it's for
startup founders, open source maintainers, venture capital investors, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers
topics
Docker Desktop monetization; containerd runtime split; Fair Source licensing; open source relicensing strategies; Argo CD agent-based architecture; managed Argo CD distribution; GitOps visualization and audit; procurement and security audits; customer field trips and onramps; unstructured data processing for AI; AI agent infrastructure; vertical-first cloud-native infrastructure
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Kelsey Hightower | |
Opening remarks ask the audience to don't check email and frame the event as lessons from founders who tried to turn open source projects into businesses and… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower - Start-Up Resilience in a Post-ZIRP World | Kelsey Hightower, Megan Reynolds | |
Advice centers on concrete moves not mottos: require a paying customer or an onramp before scaling, run field trips to customers and watch a customer install… | ||
| Panel: The $100B Opportunity for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem: A VC Perspective | Wei Lien Dang, Astasia Myers, Natalie Vais, Erik Nordlander | 38m |
Four VCs argue cloud-native AI is a near-term $100B opportunity and point to concrete bets: prioritize the data layer for unstructured data processing… | ||
| Docker's Journey from Open Source Darling to a Thriving Enterprise Business | Scott Johnston | 40m |
Timeline of concrete moves: Docker sells Docker Enterprise in 2019, lays off ~360 people, and pivots on Nov 13, 2019 to pivot to developers; charges for Docker… | ||
| Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source | Adam Jacob | 35m |
Argues that Fair Source is a deliberate middle path: delayed open source publication plus distribution limits that act like short patents to protect revenue… | ||
| ArgoCD: Lessons in Spinning Out OSS from Intuit to Independence | Jesse Suen, Hong Wang | 27m |
Origins at Intuit turn into an independent company that raised $25 million and runs Argo CD as both a free CNCF project and a paid managed distribution… | ||
| Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be? | Emily Omier, William Morgan, Tyler Jewell, Mark Fussell, Avi Press | 33m |
CNCF membership buys brand, community and shepherding—Dapper graduates Oct 30 and Diagrid is the primary maintainer—but it does not help companies monetize or… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Kelsey Hightower | 01m |
Thanks to the panelists and to everyone who stayed through a long ass day; the core claim is that the open source business model is crucial and the session… | ||
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