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Ben Rometsch

Co-founder and CEO · Flagsmith

Bootstrapped Feature flags

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Rometsch wants feature flags and remote config to stay open-source and self-hostable so teams are not trapped in a closed toggle silo.

Ben Rometsch is co-founder and CEO of Flagsmith, the open-source feature flag and remote config platform. He has kept Flagsmith focused on flags, segments, and a self-host path for product and engineering teams that do not want a heavyweight experimentation suite.

Open-source flags without the heavy suite

Flagsmith's public story centers on giving developers feature flags and remote config they can run themselves. Rometsch has written and spoken about keeping evaluation under customer control while still offering a managed cloud for teams that want it.

As CEO of Flagsmith he has steered a bootstrapped path that competes on simplicity and openness rather than the deepest commercial stats stack.

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