Why Open Source Does Not A Business Make: Talend CEO Mike Tuchen's Principles For Success

So many companies fall prey to the idea that “If you build it, they will come” that it is refreshing to encounter a CEO who accepts the brutal reality of business, that no one cares, that nobody wants your product unless they are systematically convinced, that creating successful company goes far beyond building a technology product but actually involves building a business. Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend, is one such CEO. In a couple of recent conversations we covered a lot of ground about what it means to build a business and how to avoid the many fallacies that are alive and well in the technology business.