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Matthew Prince

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1742 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

And frankly, if you're charging more when someone gets attacked, that feels a little bit like extortion.

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

And so we said we wanted to prevent that in the first place.

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

we wanted to make our pricing incredibly predictable.

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

And so our original pricing was very, you pay us 200 bucks a month and it doesn't matter how large the attack is, we're gonna make sure that you're protected.

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

And so we have had to try to figure out ways

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

to either by adding features or building in things that are usage-based to get those to drive expansion.

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

And I think that's very much the piece of our business that we're figuring out.

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 better at it in the high-end enterprise and mid-market business, in the self-service business,

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

It's been something that we're still working.

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

Yeah, that's right.

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

But I think there are opportunities for us to do that.

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

I think that we took some things that people would price on a usage base.

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

So we have a CDN-like product that traditionally would be based on the sort of bandwidth used.

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

We think that part of what's disruptive about what we've done is we've made that basically free across all our plans.

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

That said, we now have effectively a private virtual network where we can get packets from one side of the internet to the other side of the internet faster, more securely, more reliably, and more efficiently than anyone else.

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

And that's something that is a really unique asset.

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

And so that's something that we are willing to price on a usage basis.

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

And I think those new products are what will really drive net expansion dollars for our existing customer set.

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

To be honest, we haven't as much largely because we have not been as traditional of marketers.

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

Lifetime value is a great way to figure out how much you should spend then to acquire a potential customer.