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... so, what's the money for? I assume they're already profitable...
by lallysingh 8y ago
... so, what's the money for? I assume they're already profitable...
- giancarlostoro 8y agoInvesting so you can make more money? Even Microsoft has raised money to be reinvested, and they've been profitable for decades. https://thinkgrowth.org/why-you-should-raise-money-when-you-dont-need-to-365df0ad867d https://thinkgrowth.org/why-you-should-raise-money-when-you-...
- lallysingh 8y agoWell yeah, I figured that they wanted to spend the money on something for their business to make /more/ profit. But what? Edit: (at least) part of the answer is listed by jasoncartwright above.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI'm just speculating but cloud hosting might be their next big leap if they go that route? They've already got a domain registrar and other interesting services.
- jgrahamc 8y agoI doubt that. But we do have a very large network that keeps expanding and expanding...
- giancarlostoro 8y agoMaybe not yet, but I could see you guys going that route. Digital Ocean used to only be VPS' now they've got plenty of other offerings. You're still in a good business regardless.
- zackbloom 8y agoCloudflare does have a form of hosting: https://workers.dev https://workers.dev
- tyingq 8y agoThey could add features and compete in new markets. Smaller ones like bot/scraper blocking, or bigger ones like cloud compute.
- sudhirj 8y agoThey already offer bot blocking and a scrape shield, and they’re getting into Compute on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers and Coudlflare KV. Upgrading all their points across the world might open beefier compute options.
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- jasoncartwright 8y agoContinued massive network expansion. https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1104827226963361792 https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1104827226963361792