14 thoughts on the economics of the open-source data space and how to become the next MongoDB or Databricks Image by the author. The data space is booming, with companies like mongoDB (valued at 18 billion USD), databricks (30 billion), or Confluent, and many others. The startup space is overflowing with money and lots of founders want a share of the pie. But in my opinion, the data space is set up to be dominated by open source solutions in the near future. Open source spaces have a very clear winner takes most dynamic making them extremely hard to compete. And […]