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Matthew Prince

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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

You know, we haven't had...

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

I think that that's potentially something that people say.

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

That hasn't been something that has held us back.

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

Maybe there would be some marketing benefit from being public.

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

But again, I think there's actually a responsibility to an organization, to your investors, to create some liquidity.

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

And I also think that it's pretty amazing that you could have invested in an Apple or a Microsoft or an Amazon company

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

As a public market investor and had there be significant upside from there, I think this sort of allergy to being a public company is a disservice to public markets generally.

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

And I think it was probably too easy.

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

I was a securities attorney back in 2000.

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

It was probably too easy to become a public company in the late 90s.

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

It's probably too hard to do it now.

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

Again, you want to have the right balance between those things, but allowing public market investors and not just venture capitalists or people who are accredited to be able to make angel investments, be able to benefit from the innovation and the wealth that that creates, I think is actually a really important thing for markets generally.

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

Yeah.

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

So, I mean, I think great SaaS companies have three characteristics.

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

They have a low cost of customer acquisition.

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

They have low churn.

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

and they have the ability to expand revenue from those existing customers.

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

I'd say we're really good at the first two things.

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

Our cost of customer acquisition is remarkably low.