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Matthew Gregory Learned to Read the Wind. Now He Builds for Machines in Motion
Before Matthew Gregory built security tools and AI-agent infrastructure, he navigated racing yachts by turning noisy signals into decisions. His career keeps returning to the same problem: helping builders move through complicated systems without losing trust.
Ockam Spent Years Making Networks Disappear. Then the Company Did Too.
The San Francisco startup raised $17.6 million to turn zero-trust plumbing into a developer primitive. Its sharpest lessons survive in open source - including the costly rewrite that finally made the idea click.
Confluent
Confluent is the data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka. Its Data Streaming Platform - anchored by fully managed Confluent Cloud and a self-managed Confluent Platform, plus managed Apache Flink for stream processing - lets organizations connect, process, and govern data in motion across clouds in real time. Used by thousands of enterprises including a large share of the Fortune 500, Confluent went public in 2021 (NASDAQ: CFLT) and in December 2025 agreed to be acquired by IBM in a deal valuing it at roughly $11 billion.