Can Cloudflare not afford a communications director that could have maybe edited this for the CEO before he put this tone-deaf screed out on the internet?

>"We fired ~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That’s a normal quarter."

If firing 40 people every quarter is normal for you then your company culture is fucked.

>"Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly. We try to fire perfectly."

Oof. It's bizarre to me that any CEO would read that second sentence and think that's some kind of virtue worth extolling publicly.

>"Chris Paul was a bad fit for the Suns, but he’s undoubtedly a great basketball player."

Comparing now unemployed folks with an elite NBA athlete who makes 28 million a year? It's hard imagine that statement made anyone affected feel better, assuming they understood the reference.