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Partner @BasisSet. Investing in AI, automation, dev tools, data/ML ops. Former founder and operator. Never still, 🏃🏻‍♀️ towards the next big thing
Dec 11, 2020 8 tweets 5 min read
1/ Many companies are commercializing #opensource, but what metrics really matter? TL;DR - it’s not GitHub Stars ⭐️

We looked at all 134 #oss companies founded since 2015 across their @github metrics to assess which are the most telling, from seed to growth (other channels next) Basis Set Open Source Index -- all 134 open source companies 2/ To understand adoption, Issues❗️growth is the most important, signaling much deeper engagement than Stars ⭐️. Growth stage companies have 5x as many Issues❗️as seed stage companies.