Life @ Cloudflare

April 01, 2011 5:31PM

It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco and the office was full of April Fool's jokes. The creativity was spearheaded by Matthieu, who recruited Matthew and Jason to help him execute several ideas. The pranks included wrapping Lee's desk in parcel paper, packaging Ian's desk in bubble wrap, controlling Sri's computer remotely with a foot and making my desk look like it just stepped into a flurry of sticky notes. It was a fun way to start everyone's day. Thanks Matthieu! And then, after all the fun died down, it was Matthieu's turn to be pranked. Jason did a switch-and-bait on his keyboard that made it difficult to type in French. Jason removed the windows key that Matthieu uses to make accents when writing in French. Quel plaisir! The stakes have been raised for next year. The planning is already underway....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

March 23, 2011 10:35PM

In February, CloudFlare packed up our first office in Palo Alto and headed up the 101 to San Francisco. The new office is located in the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district, complete with an one block walk to Caltrain, the Giants stadium and Blue Bottle Coffee....

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  Michelle Zatlyn

March 12, 2011 12:56AM

Last week the CloudFlare team opened our new San Francisco office to our users and friends for an open house / loft party. We had The Peelers, a terrific local mashup band, entertain the crowd while everyone sipped drinks and snacked on great food from San Francisco street cart vendors....

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  Matthew Prince

March 09, 2011 7:59PM

CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition. Recently we were invited by TechCrunch to write an update on what's happened since our launch....

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  Matthew Prince

September 21, 2010 12:25AM

We have a new face around Cloudflare. Damon Billian came on-board in early September and is here to focus on the Cloudflare community. We believe in building a strong community since one of the powerful things about Cloudflare is that with every new site on the system, the system gets smarter....

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  Michelle Zatlyn