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Good write up. Classic Christensen.

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When I joined Cloudflare in 2011 Matthew recommended the book.

I bought "The Innovator's Dilemma", read it, and said to myself "OK, we'll do that then".

Any other book you think has been critical to Cloudflare's successful mindset?

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

I used to give all new managers at Cloudflare Daniel Pink’s book “Drive.” Summary of a bunch of interesting research on what really motivates people.

That’s a good one. Also we gave everyone a copy of “Give and Take” by Grant at one point. And I buy anyone a copy of “On Writing Well” by Zinsser.

Actually, I bought it right after you told me about it! It’s super interesting and I learned a lot from it

Hi John

Since you're here, would love for Cloudflare to disrupt the DBaaS marketplace.

I already run my entire business on Cloudflare (for services you have) but there is a significant portion of my infrastructure (>50%) I haven't moved over that is dependent upon needing a DBaaS offering. With a DBaaS offering, I could run near 100% of my infrastructure on Cloudflare.

(Workers KV is great btw, but there are so many times where just a traditional RDMS is needed that a key-value store doesn't fill).

Email me your desired functionality. jgc@cloudflare.

Will do (and thanks so much as you and the entire Cloudflare team does in listening to customer feedback).

Thanks for being a customer and don’t hesitate to tell us what we’re not getting right.

Just commenting to signal public enthusiasm for this suggestion.

http://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1442871038308618252

That's an amazing compliment from Christensen. Give AWS hell Cloudflare, looking forward to using R2.

One of the best reads from Christensen, too. I refer to it often

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