Open source is a talent strategy

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In the latest edition of our DirectorPlus newsletter, Manik Surtani, head of open source in the CTO office at Block, shares how open source benefits talent and the business at large.

Block, the financial technology company behind brands like Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, and others, is a big open-source consumer. “We’ve always consumed open source really well,” says Manik Surtani, head of open source in the CTO office at Block. “Most of Block is built on open source software.”

This is nothing out of the ordinary – the Linux Foundation estimates that the average modern software is made of 70-90% open-source software (OSS).

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