Interview with Katharina Meyer: On the tension between public interest and profit maximisation in public interest tech

This is an interview with Katharina Meyer, who has been a member of several technology funds in Germany in recent years. The interview was conducted in February 2024. In this interview she describes her thinking in the role of a funder and enabler of public interest technology, around how they could decide if a project is in the public interest or constitutes a public good, and various interactions between such projects/products and the market, including the importance of free and open source solutions.