![]() But their HipChat platform, according to the founders, “sucked.” Worse, the vendor, Atlassian, wouldn’t transfer their data back when Mattermost wanted off the platform. Like most startups, they had embraced CI/CD and a collaborative, real-time, teams-based approach to developing software–that’s just how developers prefer to work. The Mattermost project, and subsequent eponymous company, arose from developers struggling with messaging. proprietary software: A look at the pros and cons (Tech Pro Research) When HTML5 didn’t print cash, they pivoted to become a games studio company.Īnd when that didn’t set the world on fire, they started the Mattermost open source project in 2015. Mattermost co-founders Ian Tien (CEO) and Corey Hulen (CTO) brought together backgrounds in business intelligence and artificial intelligence in 2011 to build a high performance HTML5 game engine called SpinPunch! Buoyed by the promise of HTML5 to change how applications are developed, the two attracted seed funding from Hollywood stars like Will Smith. Indeed, Mattermost offers an interesting case study on how to do open source right as a component of a business strategy. While this may sound like an underdog story, Mattermost already boasts large customers as varied as Amazon, Uber, and the US Department of Defense. Mattermost, which just announced a $20 million, Redpoint-led Series A venture round, started as a gaming platform, like Slack, but unlike Slack Mattermost delivers enterprise messaging flexibility through open source, to the tune of 10,000 downloads per month, each of which supports hundreds of Slack-sized teams. Slack may be making the headlines with its confidential, $8 billion filing to go public, but there’s another, under the radar open source phenomenon playing in that same enterprise messaging market. Slack has the $8 billion in projected market cap, but open source Mattermost has 10,000 downloads each month, adding up to a growing threat to Slack's hegemony. How open source Mattermost is sneaking up on Slack’s messaging empire
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