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Paul Dix Put Time in a Bottle - Then Rebuilt the Bottle
A failed monitoring product left Paul Dix with five weeks, a stubborn hunch and the beginnings of InfluxDB. Thirteen years later, his career is a study in the useful art of rebuilding before comfort hardens into doctrine.
Brian Mullen Keeps Choosing Day One
From borrowed desks at early Twilio to Coralogix's AI-era observability pitch, Brian Mullen has built a career around foundations, partnerships, and the useful discomfort of beginning again.
Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan is the CEO of InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB - the world's most popular open-source time series database with over 1.3 million developers. With nearly 20 years in CEO roles across multiple companies, he took InfluxData from a scrappy open-source project of 3,000 users to a platform handling billions of data points per second for 1,900+ enterprise customers. His path to the C-suite ran not through computer science but through environmental science degrees and years spent as a mountain guide in his late 20s - an unconventional origin story that shows up in how he thinks about resilience and long-term endurance.