How Cloudflare Built a $30B Company by Making the Internet Faster

Cloudflare's journey from CDN to comprehensive edge platform is one of the most impressive infrastructure stories in tech. Started as a CDN (content delivery network), evolved to Workers (serverless computing at the edge), then AI inference, email security, and more. Revenue: $1B+ annually. Market cap: $30B+. The thesis: the internet's future is at the edge, not in centralized data centers. Cloudflare's 300+ global points of presence and zero-trust security platform position it as essential internet infrastructure.