Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

4962.044 - 4989.912 Ryan Worrell

My co-founder and I had so much conviction in what we were doing in terms of it being commercially successful that we knew on day one we would be able to go much faster if we raised money. So that's why we did it. There was never a period of time where we were guessing like, oh, do people need this? It was like very obvious to us from day one that we wanted to go as fast as possible.