“Back in 2013 Mike Olson made a bold claim: “No dominant platform-level software infrastructure has emerged in the last ten years in closed-source, proprietary form.” Olson is a smart guy, and he was nearly correct except for one small exception to his rule: Splunk. Splunk thrived in spite of its proprietary nature, and leading that success was Gaurav Gupta, then vice president of product at Splunk, and now a partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. It was a “different time,” he said in an interview, both for the industry and for him.” – read more at TechRepublic!