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Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? Loris Degioanni: We charge based on the number of machines that they need to manage with our platform. It’s the typical function of the number of servers that you’re running. Sramana Mitra: What is the next milestone after you started monetizing? What are some of the major milestones based
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: The $2.5 million of seed capital that you raised, what was the next milestone? How long did it take you from there to deliver your first product? Loris Degioanni: Based on my background and experience with open source, I decided that I wanted to approach this second adventure with an open source philosophy.
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 5)
Loris Degioanni: These dynamics towards micro-services means that these companies can essentially break their software into smaller pieces and then use APIs to talk to each other. This spawned a massive industry that is led by the cloud vendors and by open source projects like Kubernetes. I witnessed the creation of these industries and immediately
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You started your next company in 2012? Loris Degioanni: 2013. I left Riverbed in 2012. My rotation period with Riverbed was for two years. Despite being very happy at Riverbed and despite learning a lot, I was infected with the bug of being an entrepreneur. It’s really hard to get rid of. Even
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 3)
Loris Degioanni: What we did was, we created a new project based on the same code base. It was called Wireshark. This was 2006. Wireshark was an immediate success. We put a bunch of resources behind it. We told Gerald, “Just keep working on this and make the community happy.” After 13 years, Wireshark is
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 2)
Loris Degioanni: While I was in New Zealand doing the internship, a professor from the United States texted me saying he’s working in the field of packet catcher. He found WinPcap. He would like to invite somebody from the research group to do research in the United States. I was in New Zealand, so I
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Loris has specialized expertise in building Open Source companies. Read how he has done it twice. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Loris Degioanni: As you
Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: During this period when you had a lot of users and you didn’t have the model figured out, what experiments did you run to get to the heart of that issue—because the whole business is predicated upon that? Ross Mason: No one has ever asked me that question and it’s a great question. I
