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John started at Cloudflare when there were about 20 employees, and he was the lone member of the London office. Today nearly ...
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Search every verified - John interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. John Hu, co-founder and CEO of Stan, appeared on the Trailblazers Podcast on July 28, 2026, to discuss his company's growth and approach to entrepreneurship. He stated that Stan reached $30 million in revenue with 30 employees before the widespread adoption of AI, attributing this efficiency to hiring only exceptional talent and maintaining a curated team. He also described Stan's new AI agent, "Stanley," which he characterized as an "AI million-dollar content team in your pocket," developed from workflows used by top creator entrepreneurs to scale personal brands. During the interview, Hu recounted his decision to drop out of Stanford Business School to start a business, noting his mother's initial confusion and upset given the cultural significance of a graduate degree from Stanford. He also discussed the creator economy, using an iceberg analogy to describe the distribution of content creation, commenting, and consumption among users.
John started at Cloudflare when there were about 20 employees, and he was the lone member of the London office. Today nearly ...
ThisWeekInNET — Episode 100 (part 1) In this special conversation, João Tomé sits down with John Graham-Cumming, ...
This week on Intelligent Machines, we spoke to former CTO, and current board member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming, about how they deal with AI scrapers. For the full episode, go to: https://twit.tv/im/826 You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our full shows at https://podcasts.twit.tv Subscribe: https://twit.tv/subscribe Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetca... TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: h…
Episode #38 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad and Steve are talking with John Engates, Field CTO at Cloudflare and formerly the CTO at Rackspace. Their conversation includes a discussion of his time at Rackspace and what Rackspace might have done differently during the early rise of AWS, how Cloudflare's network now protects against threats in both directions not just against websi…
More and more companies are moving away from traditional cloud architecture to envision a new cloud that's more specialised to ...
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#ThisWeekinNET — Episode 83 Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI capabilities, and hardware innovations. The episode explores predictions for 2025, examining the intersection of AI and privacy, quantum-resistant encryption, and cybersecurity threats. John Graham-Cumming shares his perspective on how AI capabilities will become more seamless…
Jaana, Jon, and Mat are joined by John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of Cloudflare, to discuss Go at Cloudflare along with John’s unique involvement in Gordon Brown’s apology to Alan Turing. How did Cloudflare get started with Go? What problems do they use Go for and when to they turn to other languages? And how exactly did John’s petition for an apology to Turing get so popular? Join the discussion (https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narr...) Changelog++ (https://changelog.com/++) members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: • Di…
In this comprehensive discussion, Ken Simpson, CEO of MailChannels, converses with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, to explore the company's past, present, and future. From discussing the company's journey from its humble beginnings to its IPO, key challenges and milestones, the conversation evolves to reflect on significant events and strategic decisions such as competing directly with Amazon via the R2 Blob Storage engine. Graham-Cumming provides insights into the current state of the "Supercloud" and the integration of AI in their Workers platform. The discourse also ventures into Cl…
In this episode, I’m speaking with John Engates, Field Chief Technology Officer at the content delivery network and cyber security provider Cloudflare, the impact AI will have the ability of the good guys to secure an ever-increasing and porous network perimeter as well as how the bad guys are using AI tools such as voice spoofing and deepfakes combined with refined social engineering attacks to break down even the best defenses. Resource links: John’s LinkedIn page: / jengates Company website: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Link to Allen’s website: https://www.techcopy.net If you would lik…
Buckle up for a journey through the evolution of DevOps with John Engates, the Field CTO at Cloudflare, who has been leading the charge since his days as CTO of Rackspace (2002-2018). Get ready for a fascinating ride as we explore the role of AI in DevOps and gain insights from a true industry veteran. Listen to discover: How to handle incident response the Cloudflare way🚨: mission rooms, communication strategies, and best practices Why we can't just turn off the internet? 🌐 The ethical considerations behind cyber warfare The unique role of a 🧑🌾 Field CTO How John puts ChatGPT to work 🛠️ Li…
This time I spoke to John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of 🌩 Cloudflare🌩, a publicly listed CDN and Edge Computing platform. Topics we touched: His GNU Make book ;-) How they grew to 25 BN marketcap 📈 What he thinks about edge computing and concrete usecases for it How COVID changed the 🥷 security world 🥷 How they operate and maintain a global network with millions of servers Thanks a lot John for the Chat. Looking forward to see what Cloudflare comes up with next.
“And ultimately what Cloudflare announced was use the HTTP 402 error code which is payment required ... to say to a caller, yeah, I'll give you the content and here's the price.”
“What you see with AI happening quite often is that there's no click happening with the the website is scraped and an answer is given to someone searching on a search engine using the content that was scraped and you there's no click and that changes fundamentally the business model if you like of the web.”
“I think what we could have done is again try to build at that scale go faster you know but again you can't do it if it's not in your DNA I mean we didn't really have an army of software engineers at Rackspace at the time you know we were sort of uh mostly data center Engineers Network Engineers system administrators you know we were kind of a a different animal and so what I think the what we should have done earlier”
“The challenge was it's just the scale of AWS was so big you know they were spending in a quarter to build out data centers they were spending our revenue for a year right I mean they were just a different scale of beast at that time and it's you know certainly only gotten bigger and bigger but the velocity they had was just hard match and so we sort of always went back to the strengths of the company in terms of our ”
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