Cloudflare’s 2024 Annual Founders’ Letter

With that work largely complete, and our platform in its strongest shape ever, we plan to pick back up the usual cadence of new product launches that we’re known for. This Birthday Week, you’ll see many as we roll out performance improvements only our Connectivity Cloud can deliver to accelerate all our customers’ websites by…

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Encore: Cloudflare Co-Founder Michelle Zatlyn’s Advice on Hiring, Fundraising, Scaling, and more

Michelle Zatlyn (@zatlyn), co-founder, president, and COO of Cloudflare, joined Village Global co-founder and partner Ben Casnocha for a masterclass with our founders in late 2020.   They discussed:     Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.    Check us out on the…

Shifting from a CDN Vendor to a Comprehensive Internet Provider–Cloudflare is a Business Strategy

Toshikazu Watanabe 2023-02-13 10:30 On February 2, Cloudflare Japan held a business strategy presentation for the press. Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of Cloudflare, President and Chief Operating Officer, visited Japan to review the company’s business, as well as the current market overview and business strategy. Zatlyn began by stating that “everything is moving to digital platforms,…

Year in Review

The Best Entrepreneurial Insights and Advice of 2022 – by: Heather Mack 12.20.2022 Greymatter https://soundcloud.com/greylock-partners/2022-in-review?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing As 2022 draws to a close, we’re reflecting back on some of the most impactful discussions we’ve had with the top leaders in technology and business. We’re fortunate to have spoken with people hailing from a variety of industry sectors…

How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?

Cloudflare translates photos of 100 lava lamps into random data for use in SSL encryption. Here’s how it works: Computers aren’t very good at picking random numbers every part of a computer is designed to be predictable and follow logical patterns you put the same numbers in you’re gonna get the same numbers out which…

Ten women who redefined success in 2021

Michelle Zatlyn is the co-founder of Cloudfare, a web infrastructure, and security company. She is also the president and COO of the same. She is one of the richest women in the tech domain with a total worth of $980 million. In the year 2019, Cloudfare went public, touching an annual revenue of about $400…

The Next CEOs: Executives Poised to Lead the Top Tech Companies

By The Information Staff  |  July 19, 2022 6:00 AM PDT Photo: Clockwise from left to right, Michelle Zatlyn, Carolyn Everson, Emilie Choi, Greg Schwartz, Vanessa Pappas, Will Gaybrick, Jeetu Patel. Photos: Eóin Noonan/Collision via Sportsfile, Patrick T. Fallon, Anthony Kwan. Art by Clark Miller. Call it the Great Rehiring. After a wave of resignations…

How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Azure, and GCP

The upstart internet security and edge infrastructure company has reinvented itself to challenge the hyperscale cloud providers. Can it succeed? Cloudflare is in the midst of a significant transformation, as it continues to build out the tools developers need to run their applications across a global network of edge locations. Recent moves put the 18-year-old…