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In this conversation, we talk with Sam Bhagwat, the Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer at Gatsby. Gatsby's an open source web framework that enables developers to create websites optimized for the modern web. In doing so, they're ensuring that this digital web infrastructure, that we all take for granted, keeps improving and getting better.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Sam Bhagwat and Gatsby

00:35 Making progress tangible

02:21 Economic history and building technology

04:25 Looking forward from the history of the web

06:19 Centralization and decentralization

09:38 Open source and global collaboration

13:00 Linux, Git and GitHub

17:11 How Gatsby began

20:01 Models of community contribution

22:52 Why contribution and speed of change matter

24:41 Open collaboration beyond software

26:51 Remote teams and a global pool of talent

28:26 Connectivity and web performance

30:52 Incentives and commercial open source

34:10 Maintaining shared digital infrastructure

35:14 Prizes, rewards and community incentives

36:54 Children, productivity and reasons for optimism

38:31 Where to find Sam

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Thanks for listening to this episode of the Build the Future Podcast. This is a project by World's Fair Co. You can learn more at worldsfair.org.