So far my experience with joining and working at Cloudflare has been fantastic. Coming from a background of startups and academia, the size and scope of what Cloudflare is building and currently runs is overwhelming.
In academia I've seen lots of excellent academic computer science papers that never benefit anyone because they never get turned into a tool that someone can just pick up and use. Ideas have inherent value, even useless ideas, but it feels good to see great ideas have impact. What appealed to me the most about getting acquired by Cloudflare is seeing research applied directly to products and used by people. Cloudflare does an excellent job both inventing innovative ideas and then actually making them real. There used to be a lot of companies that did this 10 years ago, but Cloudflare now seems rare in that respect.
I just wanted to offer my congratulations on the acquisition. I don't know any details about your specific one, but I have been around enough to know that it's still worth celebrating o/
I'd love to hear about the acquisition story with Cloudflare.
You can read the details here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-bastionzero/
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So far my experience with joining and working at Cloudflare has been fantastic. Coming from a background of startups and academia, the size and scope of what Cloudflare is building and currently runs is overwhelming.
In academia I've seen lots of excellent academic computer science papers that never benefit anyone because they never get turned into a tool that someone can just pick up and use. Ideas have inherent value, even useless ideas, but it feels good to see great ideas have impact. What appealed to me the most about getting acquired by Cloudflare is seeing research applied directly to products and used by people. Cloudflare does an excellent job both inventing innovative ideas and then actually making them real. There used to be a lot of companies that did this 10 years ago, but Cloudflare now seems rare in that respect.
I just wanted to offer my congratulations on the acquisition. I don't know any details about your specific one, but I have been around enough to know that it's still worth celebrating o/