2. Builders and
Practitioners
Evan Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer

3. Evan Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer
InfluxData
Evan is a passionate entrepreneur and technology
leader with nearly 25 years of experience in the CEO
role. Evan’s career spans from creating startups in his
own garage to leading NASDAQ-listed companies
generating nearly $200m in annual revenue. Prior to
InfluxData, Evan served as Executive in Residence at
Trinity Ventures, and President and CEO at iPass
Corporation (global Wi-Fi connectivity leader), and
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Aventail Corporation
(pioneer of SSL VPNs, now part of Dell Corporation).
Builders and Practitioners

4. We are
builders

6. What
we love

7. “And If you solve enough
problems, you get to come
home”
-Mark Watley, The Martian
Builders are
creative and
resourceful

8. “We build
cool stuff
for people
who build
cool stuff”

9. “A project
with velocity”

10. Our
touchstone

11. The breadth of our community
650K 65K 24K
Millions
Cloud Signups GitHub Stars
Active Instances
OSS Downloads

12. Our true north

13. Why we exist
To help developers create increasingly intelligent
automated systems with their time series data

14. How we succeed
We put builders first
We EARN the trust of our customers and each other
We focus on “time to awesome”
We scale from sensors to edge to clouds
We respect the ecosystem

15. Meet builders where they are
Their journey
Tools they want
Their environment
Skillset

16. The Instrumentation Imperative

17. Automate
Learn
Observe
Instrument

18. From Builder
to
Practitioner

19. T H A N K Y O U

20. From Builder
to
Practitioner