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Published · transcript-backedDhanji R. Prasanna: belief
26 Oct 2025 Lenny's Podcast How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna
“Yeah, we believe in the power of open source and one of our core missions is to increase openness, and that means contributing to open protocols and contributing to open source.”
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- Dhanji R. Prasanna
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- 26 Oct 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…That's insane. This feels like it could've been a massive business of its own, some of the fastest growing companies in the world, basically this is their product and you've built it and given away. Yeah, we believe in the power of open source and one of our core missions is to increase openness, and that means contributing to open protocols and contributing to open source. And as a tech company, we're built on a lot of open source software. I think pretty much every tech company is whether you're talking about Linux or Java or MySQL or any of these essential components, and so we feel like we have a strong imperative to give back. We want to build things that not only are good for us and our customers, but that outlast Block and outgrow Block, that's certainly a core value for us and has been from the beginning even long before this whole AI phase. So yeah, Goose follows in that proud tradition and yeah, we're very excited that its had the success it's had. What's the story with the name Goose, by the way? Can't help but ask.…
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