Puppet LabsLuke Kanies

Founder of Puppet projectFounder and CEO of Puppet Labs

Reusable infrastructure is

the key to the next generation data

center

Puppet Labs

•Company and project founded in 2005 after years of research and experience

•Puppet is used worldwide, including by Google, Twitter, Rackspace, and Zynga

•We received $2m in funding by True Ventures in June 2009

Every infrastructure

starts from scratch

the problem

Power Derived from Model-driven

Simplicity

the difference

quickest to the value-add

A low startup cost but long-term

solution scalability

•< 25% penetration in the Fortune 5000

•Value-add was minimal because of start-up costs

•No usage outside of Fortune 5000

BladeLogic + Opsware sold for

$2.25b, but:

revenue strategy

•Monetize the data, not the applications

•Enable the ecosystem

•Opsware and Bladelogic: Cost prohibitive, useless at small scales, painfully complicated, not extensible

•Cfengine: Very user-unfriendly, not extensible

•Chef: All code, no data

•Hand-rolled: Difficult, high maintenance costs, inflexible

the competition

•Luke Kanies, Founder and CEO

•Teyo Tyree, Founder and VP of Professional Services

•Puneet Agarwal of True Ventures

•Kevin Compton of Radar Ventures

•Michael Abbott of Palm Computing

•Dave Rosenberg, formerly of MuleSoft

•Opinionated, needy customers

•Passionate coworkers

•Platform partners

we want