Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO of Render, joins me on this episode of Cloud Native Startup. Learn about his beginnings at Stripe as employee #8, the birth of Render and how it solved a gap in the market, and his lessons learned while transitioning roles. We also discuss how open source fits into business strategy and much more.

In this episode, we cover:

• Anurag and how he founded Render (00:27)
• Lessons learned while transitioning professional focus from engineering at Stripe to strategic business (05:42)
• Anurag’s advice for people who want to transition into larger business roles (11:11)
• The evolution of Render and its market and use case (13:57)
• The important role of open source in the developer tool ecosystem (19:46)
• Why Anurag chose to make Render open source (22:11)
• Strategies for making open source part of your platform (22:51)
• How open source fits into business strategy (23:55)

Links:

• Anurag: www.twitter.com/anuraggoel
• Render
  • Website: https://render.com/
  • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/render