Podcast appearances and mentions of luke kanies

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 focused on IT DevOps. He wanted to bring sysadmins to the table with developers and sales where they could have a voice in developing the tools they needed to solve problems. Growing up with autism, maneuvering the corporate world meant Luke heard things differently and that required a tremendous amount of adjustment, compromise, and flexibility. It ultimately wore him down to a nub. Leadership presented a new set of challenges for someone who just wanted to solve the problems that no one else thought were important. He figured out that leading people meant making hundreds of decisions daily around people. He struggled to find executives who put his and the company's interests ahead of their own. And that led to burnout. Luke's take on leadership is refreshing, eye-opening, and flat out revolutionary. While his mission has always been solving problems that impact the world, Luke now understands that the right people, aligned with the right focus and vision, will always make the difference in success. Learn more about https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukekanies/details/experience/ (Luke Kanies) and https://puppet.com/ (Puppet) You can find more information on all our episodes at https://my.captivate.fm/verticalelevation.com/podcasts (Vertical Elevation), and you can find Carol on Twitter https://twitter.com/CarolBSchultz (@carolbschultz )or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolbschultz/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolbschultz/).

Luke Kanies is the founder of Puppet and Clickety and advisor to numerous startups on matters of customer segmentation, high-level product, market strategy, authenticity throughout the product and story, and founder team dynamics. His interests include the future of work, redistribution and decentralization, worker dignity, and automation and power tools. In this episode, we are talking with Luke about turning ideas into startups.

Intro Mike: Hello, and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 44 with Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet. Yvonne is the third CEO of Puppet. Luke Kanies was the founder, we interviewed him in the episode 22. Sanjay Mirchandani succeeded him, and Yvonne took over from Sanjay in...

Phil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Luke Kanies. He is a design and strategy-oriented advisor, speaker, writer and the founder of Puppet, a company helping to define the future of software.   He has a number of interests, including software productivity, business strategy and the inclusion of more people in the software revolution.    In this episode, Phil and Luke Kanies discuss how and why he created Puppet. Luke goes into detail about his journey through founding, funding and finally leaving the company he formed.   Luke also talks about how being a bit of a maverick thinker and risk-taker has helped him to have such a successful career. They also speak about a huge software development market that is still virtually untapped and how users having more control of their data will change things, moving forward.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: (10.09) TOP CAREER TIP Getting fired is incredibly valuable. It has happened to Luke several times. After a while, he worked out that not being afraid of being fired freed him up to pursue the things he really cared about and be honest.   He became braver and took more risks, an approach that really paid off for him. Provided you do not go too mad, taking a few risks can be good for your career.   (12.40) WORST CAREER MOMENT Luke has had a few bad career moments. But, it is the collateral damage that comes from running a growth company that has been the worst thing about his career.  Luke discusses the mistake he made of hiring a friend. Unfortunately, working in a high-growth environment put an incredible strain on their relationship and caused a lot of damage.   In the podcast, Luke goes through some of the issues he had with setting up and running Puppet. He talks about challenges like financing, pulling together an executive team, scaling and leaving the company behind. All of which created difficulties for Luke.   (16.03) CAREER HIGHLIGHT Making Puppet, it feels great when someone comes up to him and thanks him for creating Puppet. Luke explains that people tell him that Puppet made their lives so much easier. DevOps pros regularly tell him that they now enjoy better pay and a good work/life balance because of what Puppet did for them.   (17.40) THE FUTURE OF CAREERS IN I.T Luke thinks that the practice of surveillance capitalism is coming to an end. He is also excited by the movement to decentralise the web and give the power back to the people.   Smartphones and cloud platforms have opened up the chance to build products that literally billions of people can use. You can now build truly specialised software tools to help people to do their jobs better.   (22.20) THE REVEAL What first attracted you to a career in I.T.? – The fact IT was a good fit for him and he was able to get paid well. Before he took on an IT role he was fired from every previous position he held. What’s the best career advice you received? – Reserve the right to wake up smarter tomorrow. In other words, if new information comes along, don’t be afraid to change your point of view. What’s the worst career advice you received? – There is no chance that you can succeed with Puppet. They were definitely wrong about that. What would you do if you started your career now? – Luke would look at what everyone else is doing and look to fill the white space. Luke likes to do something different. What are your current career objectives? – Luke is focusing on building tools to automate tedious tasks, so you are freed up to do more interesting, better paid and fulfilling work. What’s your number one non-technical skill? – Luke sees writing as his superpower. He uses writing to work through his problems and ideas. How do you keep your own career energized? – Handling multiple projects and pushing forward on 3 or 4 parts of his career at the same time. What do you do away from technology? – Luke enjoys spending a lot of time with his family. He is a keen cyclist, enjoys mountain biking, video games and photography.   (31.57) FINAL CAREER TIP Find your own convictions. Don’t always follow the crowd.   Look for common assumptions and opinions that you believe may be wrong or no longer valid. Study them and see if they are correct. If they are not, challenge them. This is a great way to discover new things, stretch your mind and change things up.     BEST MOMENTS (10.52) – Luke - “Being prepared to take considered risks will take your career in interesting directions.” (20.11) – Luke - “Building software for specific professions is a huge market just waiting to be tapped.” (28.44) – Luke - “Use writing to work through your problems and ideas. Writing things down clarifies everything.” (32.18) – Luke - “Explore your unconventional opinions in-depth. Doing so enables you to come up with ideas no one else has thought of yet.”   ABOUT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil Burgess is an independent IT consultant who has spent the last 20 years helping organisations to design, develop and implement software solutions.  Phil has always had an interest in helping others to develop and advance their careers.  And in 2017 Phil started the I.T. Career Energizer podcast to try to help as many people as possible to learn from the career advice and experiences of those that have been, and still are, on that same career journey.   CONTACT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/philtechcareer LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/philburgess Facebook: https://facebook.com/philtechcareer Instagram: https://instagram.com/philtechcareer Website: https://itcareerenergizer.com/contact   Phil is also reachable by email at phil@itcareerenergizer.com and via the podcast’s website, https://itcareerenergizer.com Join the I.T. Career Energizer Community on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITCareerEnergizer   ABOUT THE GUEST – Luke Kanies Luke Kanies is a design and strategy-oriented advisor, speaker, writer and the founder of Puppet, a company helping to define the future of software.   He has a number of interests, including software productivity, business strategy and the inclusion of more people in the software revolution.   CONTACT THE GUEST – Luke Kanies Luke Kanies can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lkanies LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukekanies/ Website: https://lukekanies.com  

Luke Kanies is the Founder of Puppet, an open source tool for software configuration management. In this episode, Luke discusses the fundamental challenges of starting, building and running an open source software business. Transcript Michael Schwartz: Welcome back to Open Source Underdogs, the podcast where we interview the founders of pure play open source software...

Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet meets Apple, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices. In this chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder, CEO Zack Blum and company advisor, Puppet co-founder, Luke Kanies to discuss the mission and challenge in managing your Apple devices.

Luke grew up on a commune and then ended up as a co-founder and CEO of a startup that raised $87 million. He talks about his unique path and how that shaped his thoughts about building an organization. He raises the central tension of organizations in a free market economy - the fact that our corporations are run more like authoritarian states with centrally planned economies than free-markets. We talk about lessons he learned as he built his company and his perspective that he shares in his article: "Why People Hate Working For Big Companies" on Medium.Lukes long-term interests are software that helps people, making better founders, the intersection of organizations and economics, and improving inclusion in the information economy. You can find his work at http://lukekanies.com/.---------------------------------------------------------------------Podcast Information: #BoundlessPodBecome a Supporter Of The Podcast for $1 a month: Patreon

Our guests on the podcast this week are Luke Kanies, CEO, andAlanna Brown, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. We discuss key findings from Puppet's 2016 State of DevOps Report. The report separates high performers by key metrics: deploy frequency, lead time for changes, mean to to recover, and change failure rate. Puppet found that high performers had 200x more frequent deployments than low performers, and 2,555x faster lead times. We look at how IT can take notes from the lean manufacturing model, especially in moving security and quality forward so that they can be closely involved in the initial design of features to avoid future issues.

Aaron and Nick Weaver talk with Luke Kanies (@puppetmasterd), Founder / CEO @ Puppet Labs, about the evolution of DevOps, the growth of the Puppet community and shifts in how IT operations are being managed.