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OKAY - here's what you need to know before you start your open-source platform. On this episode of The HackerNoon Podcast, we hear from Ben Bromhead, CTO of Instaclustr, and Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, about how they started their open-source platform. 🙀

On this episode of The HackerNoon Podcast:

• What was Ev's very first job? (01:44) And Ben's? (03:50) 🚣‍♀️
• What are the roles of different co-founders? (10:31) 🏃
• What do you do when you can't afford to hire new staff but you still need to GSD? (16:59) 💥
• How do you maintain a unique startup culture? (25:44) ❄️
• What did Ev learn from developing an open-source platform? (36:41) 🍭
• If open-source is so amazing, why WOULDN'T I make my product open-source? (41:50) 😵
• Why does Ben choose to follow the open-source movement? (43:46) 🧚‍♂️
• How do open-source companies make money? (49:37) 💰

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