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The OSS Startup Podcast

Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC)

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Episodes

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E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen

In this episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Modem Co-Founder Ben Vinegar who's building the AI product manager for software teams....

00:37:19Sep 9, 2026

E202: How the Largest MLOps Community Was Built

In our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Demetrios Brinkmann , founder of the MLOps Community , the leading community for MLO...

00:36:08Sep 3, 2026

E201: Building Your Agent Army with Paperclip

In this episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Paperclip Co-Founder Dotta (Nate) whose viral agent orchestration platform has taken o...

00:39:19Aug 3, 2026

E200: Open Sourcing Warp’s Terminal

This episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Warp founder Zach Lloyd as he shares the company story and decision to open...

00:44:28Jul 27, 2026

E199: Rethinking Infra-as-Code for the AI Era

This Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Pavlo Baron from Platform Engineering Labs - cr...

00:42:27Jul 14, 2026

E198: How Unikraft Launches AI Agents in

This Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Dr. Felipe Huici , CEO of Unikraft - the comput...

00:42:20Jun 18, 2026

E197: The Evolution of Building Open Source Businesses from HashiCorp to Flox

This Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with James Bayer , Chief Product Officer at software...

00:40:22Jun 9, 2026

E196: Shifting Developer Portals to Agent Portals with Port

This Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Zohar Einy the Co-Founder of agentic SDLC platf...

00:38:41Jun 3, 2026

E195: Taking on the New AI Attack Surface With Manifold: Runtime, Skills & Supply Chains

The latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Neal Swaelens and Oleks Yaremchuk , 2 of...

00:45:18May 26, 2026

E194: Fal's Bet on Generative Media

The latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode has our co-hosts Robby and Tim in conversation with Batuhan Taskaya , the founding engineer a...

00:41:26Apr 29, 2026

E193: Managing 100s of Agents with Maestro

In our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Pedram Amini , the creator of open source platform Maest...

00:39:12Apr 8, 2026

E192: Creating Browser Use, Navigating Hyper Growth & Building in the Competitive Browser Automation Space

In our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Magnus Müller , the Co-Founder & CEO of Browser Use - th...

00:41:13Feb 18, 2026

E191: Super Fast Infra for Agents to Use the Internet

In our latest Open Source Startup Podcast episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Catherine Jue , Co-Founder and CEO of browser infrastruc...

00:36:13Feb 4, 2026

E190: Open Sourcing AI Coding Platform Devin to Create OpenHands

In our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Robert Brennan , Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands - the open platform for cloud coding...

00:46:21Jan 20, 2026

E189: Why Your Backup Platform Should Be Open Source with Plakar

In our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Julien Mangeard , Co-Founder of open source backup platform Plakar . Plakar's open s...

00:39:54Jan 15, 2026

E188: Building (And Spinning Out) Open Source Projects With Informal Systems

In our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Zarko Milosevic (CTO) & Arianne Flemming (COO) of Informal Systems . They've built a...

00:37:48Jan 9, 2026

Exclusive: BYOC Vendor Nuon Goes Open Source!

In our latest episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Jon Morehouse , founder and CEO of infrastructure company Nuon which enables Bri...

00:42:23Dec 17, 2025

E186: Unlocking Your Unstructured Data with Typedef

In our latest episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis , Co-Founders of Typedef . Both have deep backg...

00:42:05Nov 20, 2025

E185: The Challenges with Monetizing Open Source with the Creator of Rich + Textual

In our latest episode, Robby and Tim talk with Will McGugan , creator of the Rich and Textual open source projects and founder of Textualize...

00:34:02Nov 4, 2025

E184: Building the Browser for AI - the Browserbase Story

In this episode, we sit down with Paul Klein IV , Founder & CEO of Browserbase , to explore how his team is redefining the foundation of AI-...

00:43:21Oct 29, 2025