Luke Kanies, Founder of Puppet, is Nobody's Puppet Now

Evolving Your Workplace · Apr 21, 2022 · 1h

It all started because he was unemployed, bored, and didn’t want to be a system administrator anymore. Luke Kanies founded Puppet in 2005, raised $87 million in funding, and was then fired from the company for which he sacrificed his health and probably a bit of his sanity in 2014. He then set about developing a personal CRM product through a company called Clickety in 2019, but chose instead to shutter it before the first round of funding due to health issues. Talk about perspective.

Listen to this fascinating story of how Luke, starting his career as a sysadmin, pioneered Puppet that…