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Cloudflare laid off over 20% of staff to cut middle management
“We laid off more than 20% of our team and not because the business was struggling, but, and not because they weren't great team members. But we just need fewer middle managers.”
Prince: Co-founders asking how to divide responsibilities likely have wrong partners
“If you're asking that question, it probably means you have the wrong co-founders.”
Prince: Log4j-level software vulnerabilities will be found weekly for two years
“You know, I think for the next you know, a 104 days, a 104 weeks. So two years you're going to see a log for J like vulnerability every single week.”
Prince: A 12-to-1 manager ratio is optimal for flat organizations
“I think 12 to one is right. And the benefit of expanding the number of the average number of direct reports Is it inherently flattens the organization?”
Prince: Cloudflare re-issued a years-old Nvidia press release and stock doubled
“And hilariously, like two or three years later in 2024, we, and you can look this up, we actually issued the exact same press release, just changed the date, and our stock doubled.”
Prince: Cloudflare cut earnings prep time from two weeks to three minutes with AI
“And so we went from what used to be a two week process down to what is now a three minute process.”
Prince: Cloudflare's initial internal AI agent was secretly staffed by 20 humans
“So for us, it was auto at cloudflow.com. And we told everyone, it's a magic AI agent. We've set it up. You can ask it anything. Now, in reality, behind the scenes, it was a team of about 20 people that staffed this 24 seven.”
Prince: Cloudflare viewed early VCs strictly as money sources without wanting advice
“What our style tended to be was we thought of venture capitalists primarily as, you know, sources of money and, you know, mostly sort of, we wanted when we needed money, we wanted to be able to access capital, no thought leadership, but we, yeah, we really jus…”
Prince: Major publishers land better AI deals using Cloudflare content controls
“What we've seen is if you go across the biggest publishers in the world, Condé Nast, Dot Ash Meredith, you know, they are, they, because we've now given them these tools, they're actually signing much better deals with the AI companies.”
Prince: Cloudflare powers infrastructure for two internet DNS root servers
“We provide the infrastructure for two of the 13 root servers.”
Prince: Anthropic runs all of Claude.ai on Cloudflare infrastructure
“Anthropic, again, another big customer all of Cloud.ai sits, sits on top of us.”
Cloudflare built an AI agent trained on 10 years of incident data to review code releases
“We actually built an agent that not only reviews every code release that we send out, but every configuration change. So if you go into the cloudflow dashboard, you push a button that generates a file that then gets pushed out to the rest of our network. And w…”
Prince: About half of Cloudflare customers want AI bots consuming their content
“Probably half of our customers are in that camp where they actually want to make it as easy as possible.”
Prince: OpenAI is a major Cloudflare customer powering its mobile app
“OpenAI is, you know, big customer of ours you know, all their mobile app is built, you know, on, on, on us.”
ClickHouse counts Spotify, Netflix, Disney, and Uber as customers
“We are taking this very powerful analytical database that's used by companies like Spotify and Netflix and Disney and Uber and eBay and Cloudflare, and we're building a managed service in the cloud that we're calling ClickHouse Cloud.”