
Exclusive: BYOC Vendor Nuon Goes Open Source!
From Open Source Startup Podcast by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC)
December 17, 2025 · 42 min
About this episode
The episode features a discussion with Jon Morehouse about Nuon's decision to go open source and the implications of the BYOC model in enterprise software.
In our latest episode, our co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Jon Morehouse , founder and CEO of infrastructure company Nuon which enables Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) for everyone. This is an exclusive podcast episode with Jon digging into their decision to open source Nuon! The episode discusses the industry’s growing shift toward Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), where SaaS products run directly inside a customer’s cloud account rather than the vendor’s. This model is especially attractive to enterprises because it improves security, data sovereignty, and trust, while enabling earlier pilots and shorter sales cycles. Infrastructure products like Nuon focus on making this practical by packaging applications so they work in customer environments without requiring vendor access, positioning BYOC as an enterprise-first approach that is likely to become the default way software is delivered. A key theme is open source as a trust and distribution strategy. In the infrastructure space, open sourcing lowers perceived risk, deepens customer collaboration, and builds community, which in turn acts as sales enablement for large enterprise deals. The conversation also connects BYOC to AI…
People in this episode
Hosts: Robby, Tim
Guest: Jon Morehouse
Topics covered
- open source
- Bring Your Own Cloud
- enterprise software
- infrastructure
- customer collaboration
- data sovereignty
Keywords
- open source
- Nuon
- BYOC
- enterprise
- infrastructure
- security
- data sovereignty
- AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nuon, BYOC, SaaS, AI
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