{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Building and Maintaining a Global Open Source Data Platform with Heikki Nousiainen","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/38af1bb3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1433,"description":"This week Heikki Nousiainen, CTO and Co-founder of Aiven, joins me to chat about building the business, his passion for open source and entrepreneurship, and his hopes for the future of open source in the public sector. \nIn this episode, Heikki and I explore the successes and challenges he and his three co-founders encountered in creating and maintaining their global open source data platform. We discuss how they choose technologies to support, the importance of customer demand, how founders can learn to work together, and when to “kill your darlings.” \n\nHighlights:\nOrigins of Aiven (1:40)\nPros and cons of being headquartered in Helsinki (4:41)\nAiven’s relationship to the open source community (6:02)\nHow Aiven has evolved since its inception (7:34)\nHow Aiven chooses technologies to incorporate into their service offerings (9:21)\nOne thing that has been very successful for Aiven (12:51)\nWhy Aiven chose their business model (16:33)\nThe biggest challenge Aiven is currently facing (17:37)\nThe State of Open Con and giving back to the Community (20:17)\nBarriers to more open source adoption in the public sector (21:24)\n\nLinks:\nHeikki\nLinkedIn\nTwitter: @hnousiainen\nAiven","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8IkNaFmPeP0cacpN72wvWvmuTJkRWMTzK4anhRhTwJg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwNTI5LzE2NTY1/MTIwMDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}