Sid Sijbrandij

I had no money when I started the company.

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

Yes.

Thanks for having me.

Um, well, the open source project is not my baby.

Um, it is a co-founder and my co-founder Dimitri, our CTO started that, but I actually started the company at, at, at one person.

So, um, uh, all the way from that to, uh,

I guess an inflection point was joining Y Combinator in 2015 with nine people.

But I grew up from the start.

Yeah, I don't think that open source communities are against dollar signs, but what they do want to see is you being a good steward of the project and acting in the interest of the project.

And that's a balance.

That's a balance between things that generate revenue, like new proprietary features, and things that push the open source project further, making sure that it's easy to accept contributions, making sure that there's still features landing in the open source version.

I think we had a great balance there.

And sometimes when we're off, we listen and we correct.

But Matt has been a great inspiration there.

And I'm very thrilled that he joined our board.

So as a board member, he can make sure that long term, we keep being a good steward.

Yes, we have 150 engineers and we're by far the largest contributor to the project.

And we want to make sure that we equally keep the open source code base and proprietary code base growing and alive.

Yeah.