Magento founder Yoav Kutner on open-source products

Yoav Kutner, Oro Inc, B2B, Bootstrapping, eCommerce, European Founder, International Founders, Scaling

Today’s guest and his team created Mageneto, a commerce software so many of my guests say they used to build their sites.

They sold to eBay and Yoav, who’s here today, wrote a nasty post about eBay which he later removed. I want to find out about that.

I also want to find out how he went from a guy who basically started out in a closet, creating a software that was used by so many, to coming up with new products.

Yoav Kutner is the founder of Oro Commerce, a b2b e-commerce platform.

Yoav Kutner

Oro Inc

Yoav Kutner is the founder of Oro Commerce, a b2b eCommerce platform.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy. I’m kind of rubbing my hands together in excitement for this interview. Here’s why. Boy, entrepreneurship, I’m telling you this is like a magical thing where people are transformed like that, sometimes up-transformed, sometimes down-transformed, but it’s a transformation.

I’m about to introduce you to a guy named Yoav Kutner who I’ve known for maybe about a decade now, not very well. We’re not super close buddies. We’re not hanging out on the weekends, but I saw him in his fricking office on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. It was him and his co-founder sitting on a couch, asked me to come in and do an interview with him because they had these developers who were upset with them because they couldn’t maintain the speed of development and the openness that they needed to. And so they wanted to be open.

And so they said,...

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