Published on: 2024-07-07
An economist from Yale's experiment of introducing money to monkeys.
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To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source projects need to embrace new governance, coordination and incentive models.
This is a very biased take considering JJ is a VC himself but I liked this insight -
"The pace of innovation is the only thing that actually matters. The moment you start to slow your pace of innovation you become horrible. Maybe you've built this Monopoly and a big profit profit stream but at that point you're going to get disrupted by someone else or you're going to have to disrupt yourself. The only thing that open source does is it accelerates that by a couple of orders of magnitude and you have to kind of be comfortable with that with that phenomena."
"There is no need to discriminate against commercialization in order for your business to be hugely successful. What you have to do though is embrace the pace of innovation that is forced upon you by a much larger surface area of collaboration and competition and when that happens all all it does is it benefits everybody"