{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Monetizing Open-Source Contributions Through Crypto with Max Howell","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2391,"description":"Max Howell is the CEO of Tea, a revolutionary open-source project that is seeking to help open-source contributors get paid for their work through crypto. Throughout our conversation, Max explains how he’s created some prolific open-source projects but was still unable to monetize them to the point where open source could be his full-time job, and how that provided the inspiration for Tea. Max and I discuss the importance of re-framing open-source projects in business terms of value, and not simply referring to supporting projects as charity work, and Max also shares valuable insights into the world of open-source crypto development. \nHighlights:\nIntro (00:00)\nI introduce Max, the CEO of tea.xyz, and he explains his career background and how he started Tea (01:00)\nMax and I discuss the shift that open source needs to make from relying on charity to speaking in business and value terms (09:39)\nMax describes how Tea is representing the existing value of open source and translating it into monetary form (12:32)\nThe administrative challenges of paying for open-source tools that are business-critical and how Tea helps solve them (14:36)\nTea’s business strategy for monetizing their own open-source project (18:05)\nHow Max’s goal of being able to work on the open-source projects he loves full time has played out with Tea (24:06)\nMax describes how he successfully pitched Tea to investors (25:21)\nTea’s relationship with the rest of the crypto industry (27:32)\nThe biggest challenge Max and his team are working on at the moment (29:06)\nWhat Max wishes he would have done differently and what he’s learned from the mistakes he’s made (31:59)\nWhere you can go to learn more about Tea and connect with Max (38:53)\n\nLinks:\nMax\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mxcl/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/mxcl\nCompany: https://tea.xyz/","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}