EP 103 — OpenC3's Greg Bonn On How A 20-Year-Old Defense Prime Spin-Out Turned Profitable In Year One
How does a 20-year-old product spun out of a defense prime become a profitable, bootstrapped business in year one, all while staying fully open source? At OpenC3, it starts with refusing to charge for the core product and selling everything customers actually need to run it at enterprise scale.
Greg Bonn, COO of OpenC3, tells Dave how the company's COSMOS platform went from automating benchtop spacecraft test equipment in 2006 to running mission operations for satellite fleets today. After 17 years at a major aerospace prime and a stint inside AWS, Greg joined a three-person team with a…
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