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The Craft of Open Source

Ian Tien, Mattermost

If there is one thing that has become more and more important in this day and age, it would be messaging. Add to that the current work-from-home setup where companies and businesses rely heavily on online communication. In this episode, Ben Rometsch interviews Ian Tien, the CEO and co-founder of Mattermost, which has been referred to as the open-source alternative for Slack. Ian shares their genesis story in gaming, the challenges they encountered with scaling a messaging company, the applications they find useful, and more.

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