Trust, Automation, and Trade-Offs with Joseph Jacks

This episode features an interview with Joseph Jacks, Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. OSS Capital is the first and only COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) company investor that focuses on supporting early-stage COSS founders. Joseph, also known as JJ, has worked at Mesosphere, TIBCO Software, and Talend in various sales, engineering, and strategy roles. In this episode, JJ and Sam weigh the trade-offs of open and closed core companies and discuss how each can go public. JJ also dives into the misconception of trust equating privacy within tech. Guest Quote [25:14]: “There’s a societal recognition that if you use technology to automate some part of your life and you use that regularly, you have to be able to trust it. And I think gradually, consumers are becoming more and more aware that one of the most effective ways of checking the trust box is answering the question, ‘Is the technology I'm using open source at the core, yes or no?’ And if the answer is no, I think it's very difficult and a lot harder to achieve the levels of trust that you can if the answer is yes.” – Joseph Jacks Time Stamps [12:59]: The difference between open and closed core companies [17:23]: Understanding the trade-off between open and closed source [18:23]: Trends within open source data companies [20:21]: Is it possible to go public as a closed source database? [22:35]: Leveraging the automation opportunity of open source systems [23:47]: How can consumers trust the technology they’re using? [34:01]: Advice for those starting open source projects Links LinkedIn - Connect with JJ LinkedIn - Connect with OSS Capital Twitter - Follow OSS Capital Visit OSS Capital See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.