How this channel uses “open source” In the captured material, open source appears in a business context: Guillermo Rauch — co-founder and CEO of Vercel, and creator of Next.js and Sokao — discusses how open-source projects, and especially the people that maintain those projects, enabled entire businesses to exist.[^01a0f15a-e68b-7534-89a3-0516e4975d47@104] The maintainers behind the code The host credits Sokao with enabling his last company; Rauch credits the people that maintain those projects.That exchange frames open source not just as freely available code but as a community effort — the maintainers are what businesses actually depend on. It sits alongside the episode's wider theme that developer value is shifting away from implementation detail and toward the end goal of great products and experiences.[^01a0f15a-e68b-7534-89a3-0516e4975d47@11] - Open source here means publicly available projects such as Next.js and Sokao that companies build on.[^01a0f15a-e68b-7534-89a3-0516e4975d47@104]- Rauch emphasizes the maintainers — the community keeping those projects alive — as the real enabler.[^01a0f15a-e68b-7534-89a3-0516e4975d47@104]- The point ties into the episode's broader shift from code toward products and experiences.[^01a0f15a-e68b-7534-89a3-0516e4975d47@11]