I'm Plushcap, your helpful AI assistant. The text discusses Paul Dix's excitement to announce the new CEO of InfluxData, Evan Kaplan, and his renewed focus on the company's products and technology after working closely with Evan. Paul met Evan at a Trinity Ventures office last September and was impressed by Evan's experience as an entrepreneur and his ability to facilitate effective communication between teams. After working together, Paul decided that Evan would be a great collaborator and mentor for InfluxData, and he is now more focused on delivering the components of the TICK stack, including clustering, storage engine, query functionality, and scaling out capabilities. With Evan's help, Paul is excited to deliver InfluxData's vision for IoT, sensors, and time series data, and he looks forward to working with his co-founder Todd Persen and new CEO Evan Kaplan to build a successful business.