Scaling Open Source from 0 to $100M

​Scaling Open Source from 0 to $100M ARR

No open core. No dual licensing. No features held back from the community. Aiven built a $100M ARR business giving the software away and letting customers walk out the door with their data any time they like.

Join Serena Data Ventures, AWS, and Aiven for an evening with the technical leaders building Europe's open source ecosystem anchored around the Commercial Open Source Software Report, the annual reference study of how open source companies are built and monetized.

We'll sit down with Oskari Saarenmaa, co-founder and CEO of Aiven, for a fireside that pressure-tests those findings against one of Europe's biggest open source success stories.

A few key point we'll address during this discussion:

• ​Whether AI is the biggest tailwind open source has ever had, or is quietly commoditizing the projects we all build on

• ​Why pure managed service beat open core and what Oskari would tell a founder convinced they need proprietary features

• ​What actually keeps a customer paying when switching away is technically trivial

• ​How a developer on a free tier becomes a six-figure enterprise contract

​Built for founders and operators in infra and open source. Spots are limited.

​Huge thanks to our partners YCombinator, The Linux Foundation, Mistral ❤️‍🔥

​Hosts:

• ​Serena Data Ventures: https://www.serena.vc/

• ​AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/

• ​Aiven: https://aiven.io/