Luke Kanies

Luke Kanies is a prominent tech entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Puppet, a leading cloud infrastructure automation company, and more recently, Clickety. He began his career as a system administrator and founded Puppet in 2005, which raised $87 million in funding and significantly contributed to the DevOps movement. Kanies served as CEO of Puppet until 2016 and remains involved as a board member.134

In 2019, Kanies founded Clickety, a startup aimed at creating a productivity tool for leaders to manage their relationships and conversations effectively. Clickety was designed to help CEOs and managers keep track of interactions with employees, investors, and customers, functioning as a "project management for people" tool. However, due to health challenges, Kanies decided to shut down Clickety before it could secure its first round of funding in late 2021.1356

Kanies has expressed a commitment to solving problems that impact the workplace and has shifted his focus towards developing tools that facilitate better management practices. He is also an angel investor, focusing on infrastructure and developer tools.23