// PERSON
Jay Kreps
ROLE FOUNDERAT CONFLUENTMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
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Jay Kreps is a co-founder and former CEO of Confluent, a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. He co-created Apache Kafka while serving as a principal staff engineer at LinkedIn, where he led the infrastructure team responsible for the company's stream processing and data systems. He also served as a board member at Anthropic from May 2024 to May 2026. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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mention·20VC·SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
“Most positive use cases for AI have a corresponding dark version. If you're superhuman at coding, you're superhuman at hacking”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.