IBD 50 Growth Stocks To Watch: LinkedIn Alumnus Up 75%, Rebounding, With Earnings Due

IBD 50 Growth Stocks To Watch: LinkedIn Alumnus Up 75%, Rebounding, With Earnings Due

Four-month-old Confluent is Wednesday's IBD 50 Growth Stock To Watch. Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder Jay Kreps and Confluent's other founders were previously part of a team at LinkedIn that spent years creating cloud-based, open-source software able to link data storage silos across the global LinkedIn network. The program was donated to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation collective, and named Apache Kafka.