{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Samuel Stroschein on the Challenges and Opportunities of Localization","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1938,"description":"Samuel Stroschein is the CEO and Founder of inlang, an open-source company that is looking to not only make localization easy for developers, but also to help companies achieve revenue growth through localization. \nI was particularly excited to talk to Samuel because, back in my way back past, I was a translator, so I’m always interested in solutions that exist to facilitate translation; but also because localizing software is a good example of the intersection between business problems and technical problems. Inlang also strikes me as a company that could see its primary market as developers, or could see its market as CMOs — because of the way localization is both a technical and business problem. And Samuel is clear about this: He says “What we're basically saying is if you want to make more money, you've got to localize.”\nLastly, another thing that stuck out to me about our conversation was that, as we talked about Inlang’s future monetization strategy, Samuel said he thinks that it will likely be around services — which I hadn’t heard from anyone before. His reason: That the software will ultimately become commoditized.  \nListen in to learn why localization is such a challenge for developers, what impact it has on revenue growth, and how Samuel took inlang from an open-source project to an open-source company.\nHighlights:\nSamuel introduces himself, describes his background and explains what inlang is solving for (00:37)\nWhy localization is such a challenge and how it led Samuel to create inlang (01:21)\nThe circumstances that pushed Samuel to turn inlang into an open-source project (04:30)\nWhy Samuel decided to take inlang from an open-source project to an open-source company (05:43)\nSamuel explains how localization is a growth opportunity, and how that impacts inlang’s market (09:00)\nThe way Samuel and his team are thinking about monetizing inlang (13:22)\nWhy being an open-source company is important to Samuel (15:15)\nThe collaboration that open-source...","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}