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Prince: Cloudflare powers over 10M web properties and APIs

Matthew Prince · 1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition · Mar 17, 2019 · at 2:39

Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, discusses the scale and global reach of Cloudflare's infrastructure network with Nathan Latka.

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“We have over ten million web properties, APIs, mobile applications that sit behind our network, and we run a network that literally spans the world everywhere from not very exotic places like San Jose to Djibouti and All across mainland China.”

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The claim, plainly

Cloudflare has over ten million web properties, APIs, and mobile applications operating behind its global network.

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Assessment

Cloudflare's contemporaneous SEC regulatory filings confirm that the company supported well over 10 million internet properties (defined specifically as domains, websites, APIs, and mobile applications) in early 2019. Specifically, in SEC correspondence dated May 24, 2019, Cloudflare reported serving over 18 million internet properties, and its Form S-1 registration statement filed on August 15, 2019, stated that over 20 million internet properties operated behind its platform. Because the claim sets a floor of 'over ten million' web properties, APIs, and mobile applications as of March 2019, the documented metric of 18+ million by May 2019 confirms the statement as true.

SEC Form S-1 Registration Statement (filed August 15, 2019) disclosed 'over 20 million Internet properties (e.g., domains, websites, APIs, and mobile applications) that use our platform'.
SEC Correspondence letter (filed May 24, 2019) confirmed Cloudflare delivered network services to 'over 18 million Internet properties around the world'.

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"Cloudflare" "S-1" "million" "web properties" OR "properties" OR "customers" 2019 "Cloudflare" S-1 SEC filing "million" "properties" OR "APIs" OR "applications" 2019 "Cloudflare" "10 million" OR "twenty million" OR "million internet properties" 2019 S-1

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