Pierre Burgy on the Business Model Dilemma in Open Source | Open Core Summit 2023

🔵 Join us for an insightful session with Pierre Burgy, CEO and Co-founder of Strapi, at the Open Core Summit 2023, held in the vibrant city of San Francisco. Pierre delves into the fascinating journey of Strapi, highlighting the challenges and breakthroughs in navigating the complex world of open-source business models.
🌟 What's Inside:
- Strapi's impressive achievements: Over 60,000 GitHub stars, 1,000 contributors, and 12 million downloads.
- The inception of Strapi at university and the initial struggles with traditional CMS limitations.
- The pivotal decision to go open source and the philosophy driving this choice.
- Strapi's evolution from a small agency model to a significant player in the open-source CMS landscape.
- Insights into the fundraising path that led to Strapi's growth and expansion.
- The strategic shift to the Open Core model in 2020 and its impact on Strapi's trajectory.
- Introduction of Strapi Cloud and its role in addressing user needs for managed services.
- Pierre's perspective on balancing sales-driven and self-serve business models in an open-source startup.
- Key lessons and advice for budding entrepreneurs and developers in the open-source ecosystem.
📚 Resources
Docs: docs.strapi.io/dev-docs
Strapi Events: strp.cc/events
Find help on Discord: strp.cc/discord-events
Find help in our Forum: strp.cc/40EvYp0
💙 Strapi
Get started with Strapi: strapi.io
Strapi Cloud: strapi.io/cloud
Try the live demo: strapi.io/demo
Strapi Blog: strapi.io/blog
Strapi Starter Project: github.com/strapi/nextjs-corp...

[@toothless.tarantula]

Great talk

[@berdailabs]

Nice talk

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