Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps

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CEO of Confluent, original creator of Apache Kafka

Employees Self‑filter, Keeping CEO Messages Steady as Company Scales
SocialApr 21, 2026

Employees Self‑filter, Keeping CEO Messages Steady as Company Scales

It was interesting to me as a CEO that the number of slack messages and emails from employees I got per day stayed pretty constant as the company grew from 30->3k, even though I encourage people to slack me directly....

By Jay Kreps
AI Will Supercharge Security, But Transition Will Be Rough
SocialMar 31, 2026

AI Will Supercharge Security, But Transition Will Be Rough

I think the situation with AI and security this talk highlights is kind of indicative of how AI disruption will play out. AI is going to make it really, really easy and cheap to find exploits in software. The end...

By Jay Kreps
AI Forces Founders to Rethink Org Structures From First Principles
SocialMar 11, 2026

AI Forces Founders to Rethink Org Structures From First Principles

For a long time great advice for founders was “don’t try to innovate on basic organizational practices.” The roles you need, executive jobs, ratios, spend in each area, and operational methods are kind of known in major classes of company....

By Jay Kreps