Back in 2010, the net efficiency and safety firm Cloudflare launched within the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield competitors. The firm got here in second. Earlier this yr, Cloudflare IPOed. To speak about this journey, Cloudflare CEO Matt Prince will be a part of us on the principle stage at Disrupt Berlin on December 12. He’ll additionally take part in a panel about constructing profitable SaaS corporations on the Extra Crunch stage, along with Red Point’s Laura Urquizo and Point Nine Capital’s Christoph Janz.
Cloudflare IPOed efficiently in September, with its inventory rising about 20 % that day and topping out at slightly below $21 a number of days later. Since then, although, the inventory has seen its ups and downs. In our chat, we’ll speak about how a CEO ought to deal with this, whether or not it opens up Cloudflare to be an acquisition goal for a bigger firm, and his plans for the way forward for the corporate. An IPO is barely the start of an organization’s story, in any case.
Besides the corporate’s journey to an IPO — and what comes subsequent, there’s loads of different issues to speak about with Prince. These days, in any case, a big share of the net’s visitors move by way of Cloudflare’s servers. That makes it a priceless firm but additionally open to criticism as a result of, with out its safety for DDoS assaults, any web site can simply be taken down by an attacker. The firm’s common stance has at all times been to guard free speech — and therefore any web site — from assaults. Over the course of the previous few years, it did determine to ban boards like 8chan from its platform, nevertheless. At the time, Prince mentioned that “no one should have that power” to take action.
Buy your ticket to Disrupt Berlin to take heed to this dialogue and lots of others. The convention will happen on December 11-12.
In addition to panels and fireplace chats, like this one, new startups will take part within the Startup Battlefield to compete for the extremely coveted Battlefield Cup.
