Chetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course - [Invest Like the Best, EP.188]

<p>My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of <a href="http://Prefect.io" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Prefect.io</a>, an open-source software company where my family and I are investors, and Chetan is a partner at Benchmark Capital. Both are past guests and good friends. I asked them on to help the audience understand the open source software business model. I’ve been fascinated with this model in which companies give a huge chunk of their work and value away for free to a community of developers, and then make money by building additional tools, functionality, and services on top of their free and open platform. While this may strike you as a wonky discussion on a niche software topic, I think it is valuable for everyone because the ideas can be applied to more than just code. I view much of my own activity as open-sourcing investment research and knowledge. It is also important because much of the world’s technology is built on top of open source projects. I hope you learn something new about this emerging category. Please enjoy.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>This episode of Invest Like The Best is sponsored by Canalyst. Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. </strong></p> <p><strong>If you’re a professional equity investor and haven’t talked to Canalyst recently, you should give them a shout. Learn more and try Canalyst for yourself at </strong><a href= "https://info.canalyst.com/patrick?utm_source=Invest_Like_The_Best&utm_medium=Sponsored_Content&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_term=Aug_2020&utm_content=Ad_1" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><strong>canalyst.com/Patrick</strong></a><strong>.  </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>For more episodes go to <a href= "http://investorfieldguide.com/podcast">InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast</a>.</p> <p>Sign up for the book club and new email newsletter called “Inside the Episode” at <a href= "http://investorfieldguide.com/bookclub">InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub</a>.</p> <p>Follow Patrick on Twitter at <a