How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

11/30/18 • 72 min

Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, a new company he’s building around an open source project of the same name. Gatsby as a project describes itself as a flexible modern website framework and blazing fast static site generator for React.js. At the macro level — Kyle’s career has been focused on a better way to build and ship websites. It seems he’s done just that with Gatsby’s launch in late May 2015...since then he’s taken on a co-founder and a seed round of $3.8M to form Gatsby Inc.

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11/30/18 • 72 min

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership - How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company

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Transcript for Founders Talk #59 Adam Stacoviak:

You know the feeling of getting started. It's a lure for us all, it's something new, it's something that hasn't been done before, or at least not the way you do it, so it's exciting... But startups are a little bit different, especially ones that are started with seed funding or venture capital's involvement, and especially startups built around open source software. So naturally, that's where this conversation with Kyle Mathews,

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