Why making your product's code free is a competitive advantage
Open source ventures have three key advantages: crowd-sourced product development, bottom-up sales and generating trust among the developer community.
I am a Principal at Y Combinator, where I lead investments in enterprise infrastructure startups. I invest in, serve on boards, act as a strategic advisor to startups in sectors such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, data infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud and data centers.
Y Combinator is one of the most successful and distinguished venture capital firms in the world. Y Combinator’s investments and portfolio companies include some of the most iconic technology startups such as Airbnb, DoorDash, Instacart, Coinbase, Dropbox and Twitch. To date, Y Combinator has funded 4,000 startups, which currently have a combined market valuuation of over $500 billion.
I was previously an investor at Spark Capital, leading venture capital firm in the Bay Area and worked at Cisco and The Blackstone Group.
I have deep expertise and perspectives in building and scaling technology companies, and hope to engage and collaborate with other business leaders to advance technology and entrepreneurship.
Open source ventures have three key advantages: crowd-sourced product development, bottom-up sales and generating trust among the developer community.
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