Building Open Source and living from it without selling your soul
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A self-funded company builds two open-source products, XWiki (8,000 installations, 500 clients) and CryptPad (about 10% of engineering effort), sustaining development with support contracts, paid extensions and EU research grants. The company has 70 paid staff and ~€6M ARR, recurring revenue around one third, and a plan to raise that toward 50–60%. CryptPad has ~1,750 paid subscribers vs a 10,000 subscriber sustainability target; donations cover roughly 20% of CryptPad revenue. self-funded 70 people €6M revenue 8,000 installations 500 clients CryptPad 1,750 subscribers target 10,000
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:35Open source business model
- 21:13Monetization vs diffusion
- 34:15Sustainable revenue strategies
- 43:46Digital sovereignty trends
- 51:53AI's impact on open source
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