CloudFlare's engineering teams focus on contributing to the future of Internet protocols by collaborating with organizations like IETF instead of solely shipping products. By having different engineering groups with varying timeframes, CloudFlare can meet customer needs, drive disruptive innovation, and contribute to fundamental Internet protocols, showcasing its innovative nature and organizational design for continuous innovation.
Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is going well, you don't even have to know it exists. It's one of the only defenses — sometimes the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down.
Protecting free speech on the internet around the world, across war zones and hundreds of different kinds of government, is no easy feat. That puts the company, and CEO Matthew Prince, right at the heart of some of Decoder's biggest challenges and themes.
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Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23885440
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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