Speaker info
Peter Zaitsev
Co-founder & former CEO
Percona
"Open source founders are such a minority compared to all company founders, and the open source ecosystem is so different compared to other businesses. So I think there’s a lot we can learn from being together at a conference. I also think that open source founders are very different from open source developers — very few open source developers would ever think about starting a company and doing a business."
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on open source strategy and databases optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business.
Now Peter continues as a Board Member & Advisor in a range of open source startups. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.
Schedule
Monday, 19 May 2025
11:00 -
11:55
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Why We Shouldn’t Give Up On Open Source Businesses (workshop)
Join this workshop to discuss “Post Open” and “Fair Source” and see why open source’s classic model is far from done.