Episode

The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew

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Scaling DevTools
Published
Oct 31, 2024
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2832
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Summary

Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew. John has previously worked at GitHub and Twilio and is a contributor to Homebrew. Mike has also worked at GitHub as well as being the project lead and longest running maintainer at Homebrew. We dig into: How Homebrew can trace its origins to a pub in London How Apple actually work with Homebrew How Homebrew managed to grow and scale up How Workbrew are avoiding misaligned incentives so common in open source Links for Mike, John and Workbrew Mike McQuaid https://mikemcquaid.com/ John Britton https://johndbritton.com/ Workbrew https://workbrew.com/ This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.