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Issac Roth and John Poelstra are joined by Mike McGrath to discuss the early days of OpenShift and how it convinced Red Hat to take a chance to solve its ‘coolness crisis.’
Topics discussed:
- The technical environment that allowed for Red Hat to consider acquiring OpenShift.
- Heroku and first-mover advantage.
- OpenShift’s scatter-shot approach to launching products and the “summit curse.”
- The early days of product evangelism and community building.
- Real marketing for tech products.
- RedHat’s coolness crisis.
- How Red Hat supported the growth of OpenShift.
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