The Open Source Journey of the Most Unlikely Participant
summary
G Research shifts from a closed-stack hedge fund to publishing code, forking fewer internal copies and creating an open source team that sponsors foundations. They open one office floor for meetups, change employee IP clauses, and train legal and finance to approve contributions. Hiring pivots from training-internal juniors to recruiting external maintainers, and community engagement increases — meetups, sponsored projects, and a pipeline of candidates prove the move reduces internal forks and speeds feature integration.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to G Research
- 1:49Unlikely open source journey
- 6:21Big data explosion and technology shift
- 8:10Internal open source struggles
- 9:21Decision to embrace open source
- 10:25Benefits of open source community
- 14:16Collaborating with open source projects
- 16:55Internal education and legal hurdles
- 20:12Open source as a recruitment tool
- 21:07Conclusion and call to action
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