Sounds great, until a new CEO steps in. Any company is exactly one (or more often zero) CEO away from doing whatever they want (within legal constraints) with their business, in order to fulfill their fiduciary duty (and greed).
It looks like you have voting shares with 10x the power of institutional investors, but activist investors aren't dumb either.
My biggest fear of Cloudflare has always been that one day you'll get hit by a bus and someone will figure out that merging Cloudflare with an ad network would create so much more shareholder value. The road to hell is paved with free DDoS mitigation, so to speak.
Too bad you don’t hire senior folks in Germany currently, would probably join in a heartbeat for emotional reasons alone. Keep going, lightweight features on a tap and solid reliability over years is exactly what I need and want at least.
At least Brian Thompson wasn't complicit in helping the IC conduct bulk violation of the fourth amendment rights of the entire country, unlike you. He was just a greedy bastard. Your actions, on the other hand, render you a traitor and a threat to the democratic process of the country itself.