firewall Startups

Cloudflare, founded by Matthew Prince in 2010, built a global content delivery and security network spanning nearly 100 countries that now handles over 10 trillion requests per month from 2.5 billion people. The company achieved $50M ARR in 4.5 years (by 2015) and has grown to north of $100M annually with 50-100% YoY growth, powered primarily by word-of-mouth and inbound marketing with extremely low customer acquisition costs ($1.3M ACV for enterprise sales teams).