It is encouraging to see YC accepting Open Source products. It is generally difficult to monetize OSS and will be interesting to see how a collaboration with YC helps a startup like this.
Given what you do, do you think open-source projects ran "on premise" (i.e. with your cloud provider of choice) paying a licence to use has a future beyond the enterprise scale?
We fairly recently released Bullet Train as 100% open source (https://bullet-train.io/). We're beginning to make it work, and have been surprised at the amount of enterprise interest it has generated.
Just because the code is open source doesn't mean you can't make money out of it.
