"Startups"
Articles and mentions
CNCF / KubeCon
Cloud Native StartupFest 2023
· Panel
Jesse Robbins co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman. Tactical advice on fundraising, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.
“Open source is not a business model. Open source is a movement. We're still figuring out the business models.”
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GeekWire
Q&A: Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Jesse Robbins on the Power of 'Relentless Optimism' in Startups
GeekWire profiled me as Opscode CEO and pulled the line about not fighting stupid and making more awesome through the firefighter, Amazon, and Chef arcs.
“When you're trying to change the way big organizations work, a lot of people say no a lot. Rather than try to fight them, you've got to find a way to make them say yes. Being a force for awesome in the world is finding ways to say yes.”