What are the key characteristics and red flags with today’s leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building skills, and the execution skills.

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WHERE ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS?

• Are they a 1st time manager?
• Have they managed distributed teams? Managed multiple teams?
• Have they managed a P&L?
• Have they had significant success in the past? What was their role?

LEADERSHIP SKILLS, TEAM BUILDING, EXECUTION AND RED FLAGS

• Are you joining an established “team” or group that’s worked together before?
• Is the leader repeating a previous success, in a similar or different domain?
• What motivates the leader? What is their view on competition?
• What are the leader’s best skills? Do they recognize this?
• Does the leader augment their skills with the team around them? Do they recognize this?
• Does your personality mesh with the team you’re joining, or are you expecting to be a change agent?

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Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024

SHOW: 817

TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024

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SHOW NOTES:

• LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWS

Segments Covered in the Show:

• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
• Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements
• Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI
• Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussions

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Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.

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• Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)
• “figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter)
• The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)

OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL

• There are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)
• There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainers

FREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONES

• Red Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)
• Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributors
• Yellow flags: Foundation owns copyright
• “There’s the business side and there’s the hippie side of OSS”
• “I have endless ambitions”
• “I didn’t build a forever entity”
• “When is the rug pull going to happen?”
• If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?
• “Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they?
• When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?
• Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?
• How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?

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