Economic Value Creation and Capture Fundamentals of COSS
Talkat Open Source Leadership Summit 2019 · on Tuesday, 2019-03-12· at 16:40· The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom·
summary
Explains the Medium post with data showing 40 companies over $100M up from two in 2013 and an index that totals about $18B annual revenue and 47,000 employees across commercial open source firms. Argues value creation is decentralized: many flagship projects start as academic or company side projects, raise little VC, and diffuse R&D and distribution. Claims value capture is permissionless and distributed across cloud providers, vendors, hardware and developers, so business models emerge by iteration.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 1:38Examples of COSS companies
- 3:30COSSCI: COSS Company Index ($100M+)
- 6:13COSS vs. FPS: Value Creation vs. Capture
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