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Lessons from the early days building Kafka and Confluent | Jay Kreps
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From writing the first lines of Kafka over a Christmas break as a LinkedIn engineer to running a public company as the CEO of Confluent, Jay joins the show to chat about how he and his co-founders convinced investors to take a chance on their vision, what many engineers get wrong about communication, and why engineers can make great CEOs - even when coding is not in the job description. And much more.
Segments:
(00:01:16) The Shaved Head Bet (00:04:07) Fundraising (00:12:16) The Role of Technical Background in VCs (00:15:48) The power of believing in the possibility of important changes (00:18:29) The Journey to starting Confluent (00:27:11) Kafka's Controversial Beginnings (00:34:30) Effective Communication in Engineering (00:44:20) The Early Days of Kafka (00:48:31) The Power of Storytelling (00:57:19) Early days of Confluent (01:03:06) Do Engineers Make Good CEOs? (01:07:59) A Typical Day in the Life of a CEO (01:12:24) The Evolution of Data Streaming
Show Notes: - “The log” blog post that solidified Jay and his co-founders' conviction to found Confluent: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
- Jay on twitter: https://x.com/jaykreps
Stay in touch: 👋 Make Ronak’s day by leaving us a review and let us know who we should talk to next! hello@softwaremisadventures.com
Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Forest License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
53 tập
Manage episode 421920649 series 2838288
From writing the first lines of Kafka over a Christmas break as a LinkedIn engineer to running a public company as the CEO of Confluent, Jay joins the show to chat about how he and his co-founders convinced investors to take a chance on their vision, what many engineers get wrong about communication, and why engineers can make great CEOs - even when coding is not in the job description. And much more.
Segments:
(00:01:16) The Shaved Head Bet (00:04:07) Fundraising (00:12:16) The Role of Technical Background in VCs (00:15:48) The power of believing in the possibility of important changes (00:18:29) The Journey to starting Confluent (00:27:11) Kafka's Controversial Beginnings (00:34:30) Effective Communication in Engineering (00:44:20) The Early Days of Kafka (00:48:31) The Power of Storytelling (00:57:19) Early days of Confluent (01:03:06) Do Engineers Make Good CEOs? (01:07:59) A Typical Day in the Life of a CEO (01:12:24) The Evolution of Data Streaming
Show Notes: - “The log” blog post that solidified Jay and his co-founders' conviction to found Confluent: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
- Jay on twitter: https://x.com/jaykreps
Stay in touch: 👋 Make Ronak’s day by leaving us a review and let us know who we should talk to next! hello@softwaremisadventures.com
Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Forest License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
53 tập
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