keynote presentation of dries buytaert at iminds the conference 2014
TRANSCRIPT
Founded Drupal
Co-founded Acquia
Co-founded Mollom
Co-founded Drupal Association
Hold a PhD in CS
Photo geek
ME
where I started Drupal Student dorm, Antwerp
Compiler books
IKEA furniture Assembly books
Chess board
Stamp collection
2.5% of the web
2,000+ contributors to Drupal 8 core
15,000+ contributed modules
FREE to everyone
1in 50 sites worldwide run on Drupal.
Organization Type Funding Status
Drupal Community Bootstrapped 2.5% of web, 10k+ CONTRIBUTORS
Drupal Association Non-profit Bootstrapped ~$5M REVENUE
25 EMPLOYEES
Acquia For-profitRAISED
$100M+~$100M REVENUE 500+ employees
Mollom For-profit Bootstrapped Sold
current activities
How people think you spend your days...
REALITY
STARTUP LESSONS
5
Business model INNOVation vs technical innovation01.
zero-marginal-cost production
Drupal
Freedom tostudy the programre-distribute the programrun the programmodify the program
DRUPAL iS open source
Open Source
Collaboration
Community
Innovation
scaling is always hard0
2005: The big Drupal server meltdown.
$10,000 in donations
OSL offered free hostingSun shipped a server
COMPANIES ARE ALWAYS A BIT BROKEN
LEARN SALES & MARKETING0
MAXIMIZE YOUR IMPACT ON THE WORLD0
IN 2004:
DEMOCRATIZE ONLINE PUBLISHING
NOW:
SUPPORT DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
WE SAVED THE WORLD.
UNIVERSE
do well do good
TEAM IS ALL that MATTERS05.
The only thing between a market opportunity and success is a good team
1. Business model innovation
2. Scaling is always hard
3. Learn sales and marketing
4. Maximize your impact on the world
5. Team is all that matters
5 lessons:
Thank you!
Contact: http://buytaert.net/contact Twi%er: @Dries Blog: h%p://buytaert.net