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Kreps: Confluent relegated its core cash-cow product to engineers' spare time
“Originally it was like a small group that was working on the cloud offering. And then we were like, no, okay, everybody. Only does the cloud thing, and we will work on the software product in our spare time. Team by team, which is a very dangerous thing to do,…”
Kreps: Confluent coined 'data in motion' against databases for its IPO
“Our approach to that was for the IPO was very much like, okay, databases, data at rest. But now all the parts of the company are connected. There's going to be an equally important problem of data in motion. And so, you know, the goal was to convey, Hey, these…”