What Thuan Pham thinks about open source

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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1. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingDepending on open source you cannot fix is the frightening kind of outage, because at your own scale there may be nobody in the world you can pay for an answer.

   Their wordsI don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else

   ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 14th of 24 in this recording