Another funny tidbit:

On March 24, 2017, a few months after his initial copying of Splunk’s source code, Mr. Sharp resigned from Splunk to co-found Cribl with Dritan Bitincka and Ledion Bitincka— both former software architects at Splunk.

Except that they didn't because initially the had created a company called diag.io that was focused on troubleshooting fault configurations.