Open Source Project Explodes What Happens Next

What this video covers

Airbyte's rapid growth and impressive user adoption within its first year, highlighting how an open-source model can lead to significant traction and community building. It also touches on the company's successful fundraising rounds, indicating strong investor confidence due to this traction.

Transcript

And as you're saying our users, you know what what happens when your open-source project completely takes off. >> Good question. Well, when you have a small and mighty team, it's easy to get uh completely swamped by all the the community interaction, which is a very good, but at the same time, it also means that you're spending so much time with the community that you don't have time anymore to uh to build and continue to focus on the product. And that's when we went to just build up more of the company. Uh that's also when we raised the the series B. But that was a very strong signal for us. It was the product was yet still a little bit immature. But people were very much going above and beyond to make it work for their use case because the pain that we were solving was so acute that anything was better than what they were doing. And that's that's really how we uh we got that uh

that interest from uh from the community and from our users. >> Yeah. But yes, very painful when you hit the wall of not being able to work on your

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