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Matthew Prince

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608 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

29, 39, 49.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

And we're sort of trying to, you know, get people to move between that, you know, zero to 20 is a big jump.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

20 to 200 is a big jump.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

200 to 5,000 is a big jump.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

5,000 to, you know, 50,000, 500,000, you know, is a really big jump.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

And so it really is different segments of the business where we're trying to segment it based on the value that we're being able to deliver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

So we, you know, the, the way that you, uh, the, the variable that you, uh, turn up or turn down in order to determine how much hierarchy there is in an organization is how many direct reports, uh, can anyone have as a max?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

Um, you go to the Harvard business school, they say the right number is between six and seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

We tend to think that we hire people who have a little bit more self-direction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

And so we think the right number is between nine and ten.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

I've got about nine direct reports to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

My co-founder, Michelle, is our COO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

So the people who would report to me would be our head of sales, CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

our head of security, our CTO, head of product, those sorts of folks are the people that report to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

And again, fairly traditional organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

I think we're a little bit flatter than

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

than some organizations because again, we've allowed more direct reports per individual than some people do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition

I would say that every acquisition that we've done, the first and foremost question is, are there individuals and real talent here who we feel will be able to contribute to the team, fit in with our culture, and that would work out.