Our professor gave us a B on the business plan for Cloudflare. Most expensive B in Harvard Business School history.
Twenty percent of the internet's web traffic flows through our network every day. We didn't plan to become critical infrastructure. It just happened.
The free plan isn't a marketing gimmick. Every free user makes the paid product better because they add data, traffic patterns, and threat intelligence to the network.
We blocked 209 billion cyber threats in a single day. That's not a typo. Billion with a B. The internet is a war zone and most people have no idea.
AWS charges you to move your own data out of their cloud. We charge zero egress fees. Let the customer decide where to put their data without being punished for moving it.
No infrastructure company should be the arbiter of what's allowed online. But when someone uses your platform to coordinate violence, doing nothing isn't neutral — it's complicit.