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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cloudflare comes up
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:19 Matthew Prince And it doesn't have to be cloudflare. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Matthew Prince And, and early on, we would ask questions, like, if Cloudflare ran the entire internet,
- ▶ 9:17 Matthew Prince So, so for instance, when Cloudflare launched, we had a problem, which was we knew in order for this to be a big business, we needed to sell to really big banks and governments and financials, hospitals. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:52 Harry Stebbings But I, I think that's a very specific example related to Cloudflare, if we're being honest.
- ▶ 16:33 Matthew Prince Maybe, but it is, it is, um, you know, I was, there's that, Ray Rothrock is one of the, one of the, um, early investors in, in Cloudflare, and he said, you know, usually,
- ▶ 23:37 Matthew Prince And, um, I think part of Cloudflare's success was we were nobodies.
- ▶ 25:46 Matthew Prince So you have Cloudflare on one side and then the other person, 2 times in the scene
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:46 Harry Stebbings So, I recently did a show with Matt from Cloudplan.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Harry Stebbings What was the aha moment for Cloudflare?
- ▶ 5:54 Matthew Prince I met Michelle, who was, uh, so Lee, uh, Michelle and I started Cloudflare, but I met Michelle, and I, and Michelle was just clear, was the person I should start a company with, um,
- ▶ 6:44 Matthew Prince I will say that this is the first job I've had where I haven't been imagining what else I could do, and people now are like, why do you, why do you still, you know, work at Cloudflare? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Matthew Prince And my answer is always like, I'll be a cloudflare because I can't imagine anything else that I would do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 Harry Stebbings Has Cloudflare become you, Matthew? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Matthew Prince I mean, we've had, we've had all kinds of, you know, I mean, it's hard to imagine any threat actor that isn't trying to attack Cloudflare on, on any given moment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Matthew Prince So when I, when I started at Cloudflare, I said, I've done this now long enough to know what my strengths and weaknesses are.
- ▶ 20:41 Matthew Prince Whereas at Cloudflare, Michelle texted me, don't you dare get hit by a bus.
- ▶ 23:50 Matthew Prince So, so today at Cloudflare, as we think about things, when we have a question of what product to build, ultimately, I'm the one who, who makes the decision on, on that.
- ▶ 26:42 Matthew Prince I, you know, I feel very fortunate to have dated some just incredible people, um, over, over the years, and especially during the time of, of starting, starting Cloudflare, and it could have worked out with almost any of them, um, but I, I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 Matthew Prince Like, and, and, and been successful enough and, you know, made, made enough that I, I wouldn't worry about, you know, like it's, it's one thing to like have, and when, when we started Cloudflare, I was debt broke.
- ▶ 31:27 Matthew Prince You're wildly successful and you, you know, you sell the business or you, or you take it public or what, and it doesn't have to be cloudflare. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:27 Matthew Prince And, and early on, we would ask questions like, if Cloudflare ran the entire internet,
- ▶ 38:30 Matthew Prince So, so for instance, when Cloudflare launched, we had a problem, which was we knew in order for this to be a big business, we needed to sell to really big banks and governments and financials, hospitals, and we needed to sell like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:05 Harry Stebbings But I, I think that's a very specific example related to Cloudflare, if we're being honest.
- ▶ 45:46 Matthew Prince Maybe, but it is, it is, um, you know, I was, there's that, Ray Rothrock is one of the, one of the, um, early investors in, in Cloudflare, and he said, you know, usually,
- ▶ 51:47 Matthew Prince And, um, I think part of Cloudflare's success was we were nobodies.
- ▶ 53:56 Matthew Prince So you have cloudflare on one side and then the other person, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:46 Matthew Prince You know, and I hope that we're then generating enough wealth across the entire company where the people who have come on this journey with us, um, can, can do it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:05 Matthew Prince Like Bailey Gifford, who's, you know, one of Kleffler's, you know, top investors in a Scottish firm, their average holding period is 16 years.
- ▶ 58:48 Matthew Prince So Lee, who's the third co-founder, um, uh, unfortunately isn't, isn't at the company anymore, but you know, somebody, I knew Lee longer than, um, than I knew Michelle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:35 Harry Stebbings What needs to happen for Cloudflare to be a two hundred billion dollar company? 3 times in the scene
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:57 Joost de Valk I already have, like, I'm a big fan of Cloudflare. 2 times in the scene
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:21 Henry Schuck From evaluation purposes, snowflake, cloud flare, us, you know, like, and so there is an expectation of perfection.