Well that was a hell of a enjoyable experience. At the tip of April my time at Confluent got here to an in depth after seven years main exterior comms. I’m left feeling nothing however gratitude. Gratitude for being… | Justin Dorff

Well that was a hell of a enjoyable experience. At the tip of April my time at Confluent got here to an in depth after seven years main exterior comms. I’m left feeling nothing however gratitude.

Gratitude for being trusted to guide comms by means of a sequence of main moments. We helped create and set up the Data Streaming Platform class, took the corporate public in one of many first main post-pandemic IPOs, supported a number of funding rounds and earnings cycles, and led communications for numerous product launches, firm milestones and disaster situations.

Gratitude for the chance to work with, assist and study from some extremely gifted executives together with Jay Kreps, Stephanie Buscemi, Kris Muller, Erica Ruliffson Schultz, Neha Narkhede, Steffan Tomlinson, Rohan Sivaram, Melanie Vinson, Shaun Clowes, Maddie Chavez, Liz Farrelly, Rob Ashe, Zaid Ramadan, Daylan Burlison, Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti, and so many others.

But most of all I’m grateful for being given the chance to construct a crew of fantastic comms professionals. Lyn Eyad, Sriya Kodial, Becky Straker, Jena Stark, Joy Cha, Maria Dudusova, Bruno R., Natalie Mangan, Lisa Champney-Loftus, Chris Potter, Matthew Phang, Indranil Mukherjee, Arun G Krishnan, Bobbie Laccabue, Taylor Jones and Kerry Tuttle. Each of you raised the bar for what good comms appears to be like like. You put within the work to make laborious issues attainable, cared about outcomes and the affect they’d, and all the time discovered methods to make us higher. And we completed all that whereas having a ton of enjoyable. I’m a greater comms skilled having labored with you all. THANK YOU!

As for what’s subsequent, the seek for my subsequent nice journey begins as we speak. If you understand a mid to late stage startup that should take their comms to the subsequent stage let me know. I would be capable of assist.