Matthew Prince
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1,742 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2019
last heard 10 Jun
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And so again, yes, it does cramp some of my summer plans.
100,000 basis points is a lot.
Yeah, I think, you know, there are a handful of things that that that that are interesting lessons for us.
So, first of all, like I love being a public company.
It's you know, I think that it's interesting, you know, that the the in in jurisdictions where.
You don't have no-fault divorce.
Spousal homicides are much higher, which is, I think, kind of an analogy to the difference between private market investors and public market investors.
It's really hard to fire your VCs.
It's hard for your VCs to fire you.
And so as a result, like...
Actually, it's kind of dysfunctional.
Whereas public market, I love our investors because if I do something stupid, they call me up and they say, that was stupid.
I sold your stock.
Then we have a conversation and sometimes they say, oh, actually, that makes sense now and I bought it back.
I think you can have actually a much more honest, much more real conversation.
That's felt actually just a lot healthier than what you see in the private market.
uh and and that's that's that's the reality but um yeah so it's very healthy to be like yep i'm disassociated like moving on uh in both and in both directions right i mean it's just a better it's a better relationship and and so i like i loved the process of going public um i think the thing that we did um like it was it was an opportunity for us to really kind of retell our story like you don't get to reinvent yourself very often but the process of writing the s1
was incredibly just an opportunity to sit down and really do it.
And we really dug in and told the story in a way that to this day, we still refer to parts of that document to sort of explain what is Cloudflare and how did we work.
I think that the most clever thing that we did, and this was advice that I got from Ryan Smith from Qualtrics, was he said, you know, he's like, what are you doing about friends and family?
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