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The Craft of Open Source

Harsha, Co-Founder @ MinIO (min.io)

MinIO is considered the #1 cloud-native open-source object store for enterprises. Ben Rometsch's guest in this episode is Harshavardhana, the co-founder of MinIO. In this interview, you'll get a glimpse of Harsha's founding principles in building MinIO: simplicity and predictability. Harsha explains that building software anyone can run on their laptop makes MinIO very user-friendly and accessible to the community. Join in the conversation and discover why Harsha targeted developers first in the marketing strategy, how using the Red Hat model in the commercial side of MinIO works in sustaining the company, and how Harsha sustains an open source community with thousands of active members. 

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