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How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- ▶ 0:03 Brett Berson He's the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, the open source system he and his co-founders created while they were working as engineers at LinkedIn. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Brett Berson For all of the different disciplines, as the business begins to scale, did you think about what is correct in the context of Confluent?
- ▶ 7:56 Jay Kreps The way Confluent came about, there was a open source project. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:25 Brett Berson Maybe just so we have a little bit more scaffolding, you can give us the trailer version of the Confluent story going all the way back to when you were at LinkedIn, and then we'll use that as sort of a jumping off point.
- ▶ 14:47 Jay Kreps You know, is, uh, you know, it was originally just me who worked on this and we added pretty quickly some other really strong engineers, two of whom, uh, became my co-founders at Confluent, Jun and Neha.
- ▶ 20:19 Jay Kreps It's interesting in this area that Confluent operates in, which is, you know, there's kind of very technical, uh, software products, you know, it is often the case that when you see early companies that have quick success, I would say one… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:45 Jay Kreps And, you know, we did start that pretty early in the life of the company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:43 Jay Kreps There's always two lenses in a company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:39 Brett Berson Are there, are there things that you were doggedly pursuing in the context of confluent and then you eventually did wave the white flag or whatever the expression would be? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 Brett Berson Like, there are many things you mentioned that are correct in the context of the vessel that is Confluent, but I'm curious, like, where do you have conviction that these few ideas are broadly correct and maybe underappreciated or…