Open Source Software Author – CTO

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🕒 April 1

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Open Core Ventures

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1 - 10 employees

Venture Capital • Open Source • Software Development

Open Core Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Sid Sijbrandij that focuses on starting commercial open source software companies. Unlike conventional venture capital firms, Open Core Ventures does not invest in existing companies, but instead identifies open source software projects with potential, recruits passionate founders and contributors, and launches new companies around these projects. Their approach aims to provide resources and reduce barriers to entrepreneurship, creating value for the open source community. Open Core Ventures is not accepting new limited partners at the moment and is involved in various projects such as open source low-code development platforms, game development frameworks, identity management systems, and more.

📋 Description

• Manage and contribute to your project and company full-time, collaborating with OCV and leveraging OCV resources including, and not limited to, CEO sourcing • Conduct customer discovery and leverage iterative feedback to build a commercial arm around your OSS project • Grow your open-source community alongside your business, advancing OCV’s mission

🎯 Requirements

• Has made significant contributions to an open-source project with an existing community • Strong enthusiasm and excitement about being the founder of a company • Understanding of basic startup considerations • Created or is the author/owner of the OSS project (preferred) • Has prior entrepreneurial experience/experience as a founder (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• At Open Core Ventures, we operate in a transparent environment, with clear terms and open communication, guided by our public handbook. • We celebrate and embrace differences as a strength and source of innovation. • We dare to dream, dare to lead, and dare to change. • We are resourceful, think creatively, and adapt quickly. • We persevere, take challenges head-on, and do not bat an eye at the hard stuff.