When assessing the value of an open source project, we typically focus on dependencies, but, increasingly, we need to assess the value of who produces that code. Thus we find Sophie Alpert, a prominent React developer, bewilderedly reporting that she was offered $600 to open a pull request on a random open source project due to the visibility she would bring, prompting her to jokingly wonder aloud, “Is this what it feels like to be an influencer?”
