How we dodged risks and raised millions for our open-source machine language startup – TechCrunch
Adam Carrigan Contributor Adam Carrigan is a co-founder and COO of MindsDB, an open source AI layer for existing databases. Open-source software gave birth to a slew of useful software in recent years. Many of the great technologies that we use today were born out of open-source development: Android, Firefox, VLC media player, MongoDB, Linux, Docker and Python, just to name a few, with many of these also developing into very successful for-profit companies. While there are some dedicated open-source investors such as the Apache Software Foundation incubator and OSS Capital, th...
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