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> I could talk about free never being free or the venture-funded model that allows them to lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year centralizing a big pa
by amadeuspagel 6y ago
> I could talk about free never being free or the venture-funded model that allows them to lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year centralizing a big part of the internet but all that is a different conversation.
Cloudflare is a profitable public company.
- reducesuffering 6y agoIt has the potential to be profitable, but it is not currently.[0] [0]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials?p=NET https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials?p=NET
- amadeuspagel 6y agoTIL that gross profit is not the same as net income.
- 02020202 6y agotheir TTM FCF is -108M$. please stop being stupid in public places.
- polote 6y agoYou can be profitable in some areas and still fund at loss other parts of your business
- amadeuspagel 6y agoBut that's not what cloudflare is doing. You can't separate analytics from other parts of its business. Cloudflare collects a lot of data to determine which traffic is legitimate, and offering analytics simply means that they build a nice UI for site owners to access that data.