{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Community Data with Daniel Izquierdo","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1772,"description":"Daniel Izquierdo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bitergia, an open-source company that provides software development data and analytics. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao to discuss how he went from working in academia to co-founding an open-source company. Throughout our conversation, Daniel shares interesting anecdotes on the unique journey he’s taken to build Bitergia, including why they haven’t focused on growing fast so much as they have focused on growing in a way that supports their employees and customers. He also shares insights into how to measure an open-source community, and the knowledge gaps that he sees in people who can’t contextualize the data they’re getting on their community. Daniel also walks us through the other open-source business models Bitergia tried before discovering what worked for them.\nHighlights:\nI introduce Daniel, who is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bitergia, as he joins me at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao (00:24)\nDaniel describes the work that he does at Bitergia (00:41)\nThe story of why Daniel helped to co-found Bitergia during the finalizing of his PhD (01:38)\nHow Daniel and his co-founders got by as they transitioned from academia to founding an open-source company, and what the first year of running Bitergia was like (03:28)\nDaniel explains how Bitergia makes money as an open-source company (06:04)\nThe main types of customers that Bitergia works with (07:50)\nThe metrics that Daniel feels are critical when measuring an open-source community (08:50)\nDaniel describes the knowledge gap he observes in clients who can’t contextualize the data they get on their community (11:16)\nThe story of how Bitergia tried other open-source business models before finding what worked for them (13:41)\nWhy Daniel feels it is a disadvantage to have his company based in Spain (16:07)\nDaniel shares his growth philosophy for Bitergia (18:47)\nThe challenges facing Daniel and his team at the moment (20:21)\nDaniel’s advice to...","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}