Technological Transformation

Why making your product's code free is a competitive advantage

Title-shift photography of html code: Open source companies have a competitive advantage.

Open source companies have a competitive advantage. Image: Unsplash/Markus Spiske

Arnav Sahu
Investor, Y Combinator
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Market capitalization of the major publicly traded open source companies ($ in billions). Data as of 11 August 2022.
Market capitalization of the major publicly traded open source companies ($ in billions). Data as of 11 August 2022. Image: CapitalIQ
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Arnav Sahu, Investor, Y Combinator

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