Open is the way

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”

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Featuring:

• Joseph Jacks – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• OSS Capital


• Changelog Interviews #320: Venture capital meets commercial OSS


• Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more


• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era


• Open Source AI Is the Path Forward


• Just realized that I’ve led 37 rounds of funding at incorporation where OSS Capital was the first investor on the cap table…


• Silicon Valley! Jian Yang’s New Pied Piper scene

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