Mark Shuttleworth
South African-British entrepreneur and former CEO of CanonicalWikipedia
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Oct 8, 2026
Zach SangHOST
Lance Bass is here.
Lance BassGUEST
[laughs] Hi, guys.
Zach SangHOST
I mean, it's, like, true, dude.
Zach SangHOST
Like, you...
Lance BassGUEST
All of them, like, oh.
Zach SangHOST
Mm-hmm.
Lance BassGUEST
So those solo white guys really kind of-
Zach SangHOST
[laughs]
Alec HoggHOST
And anyone who was around there would remember something called the dot-com boom.
Alec HoggHOST
There was a chap from down the road here called Mark Shuttleworth.
Alec HoggHOST
He had a little company called Thought.
Alec HoggHOST
It was really a little company because VeriSign was in the United States and they would not export their security products.
Alec HoggHOST
Let's say that the rest of the world also have these security products for their computers.
Alec HoggHOST
Shuttleworth was the market leader because you've given it all away for free.
Alec HoggHOST
This company called Verisign bought out Mark Shuttleworth's company for 4.4 million shares of their shares.
Alec HoggHOST
But the good news for Mark was that the shares had gone from like $2 to $200.
JillHOST
She formerly served on the Ubuntu Community Council and works as a communications and engagement specialist for the Thunderbird Project.
JillHOST
Her background in community building includes past work with the community team at Canonical and working with Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Mate.
RyanHOST
Nice.
JillHOST
Welcome to the show, Monica.
KaiHOST
For example, there's people who are protesting against Google, protesting against AI.
KaiHOST
and so forth and like for example i think mark shuttleworth the the canonical ubuntu south african guy he was going to give a talk there and then they had this massive they had this mad demonstration saying that you know no kings or whatever and he basically withdrew his uh his uh talk
speaker_1GUEST
how is he related to the no kings
KaiHOST
Well, I mean, I'm just...
KaiHOST
I don't know what the protest slogan was, but it was something like, you know, no billionaires, no...
KaiHOST
But who is he? You know, Mark Shuttleworth, the guy that owns Canonical, the thought SSL guy.
speaker_1GUEST
Okay.
speaker_1GUEST
And, like, what's...
ZebHOST
It is.
RyanHOST
But I want to say this, five, six years ago, you go back, we had Mark Shuttleworth on from Ubuntu.
RyanHOST
We've had Popey, of course, Wimpy, all of the great developers on Ubuntu.
RyanHOST
One of the things I would get on my soapbox about was how Ubuntu was always so far behind in And it's kernel releases.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Ubuntu 26.104 is the other one.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Mark Shuttleworth called it the OS for the agentic era, and the mechanism is Workshop, which sandboxes agents and LXD containers with snap confinement.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The pitch is, quote, you can run random code from the internet on your laptop without handing it root.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's containment.