May 23, 2025 02:03 AM IST
The CEO of Cloudflare was recently left amused by an email with an “offer to purchase” his company.
The CEO of Cloudflare was recently left amused by an email with an “offer to purchase” his company. Matthew Prince, the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of Cloudflare, took to the social media platform X to share a screenshot of the email, wondering how much bigger the company would have to grow before he stopped receiving such emails.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cloudflare Inc., wonders about spam emails(Bloomberg)
What is Cloudflare?
For some context, Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company that provides a variety of services to make websites faster, safer, and more reliable.
According to Forbes, it has a market capitalization of $54.25 billion and reported $1.4 billion in revenue last year.
What offer did the Cloudflare CEO receive?
Matthew Prince received an email from a “private equity firm” offering to purchase Cloudflare, which he dismissed as spam.
“We have a private equity firm in our network who is very interested in acquiring Cloudflare. Given their mandate, this opportunity is an excellent match. Would you be open to discuss this opportunity?” read the email.
What was his reaction?
Prince first dismissed the offer as spam, then wondered whether the CEOs of tech giants like Microsoft and Apple still received bogus offers like he does.
“At what size company do you think you stop getting these spam messages? Like do you think Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg still get them?” he wondered.
“You really think people at the top read their emails? They are read by an assistant who cherry picks the most relevant emails and sometimes sprinkles in reality as long as it’s not too jarring,” one X user answered.
“Do you still get job offers at other companies too?” another asked. The CEO of Cloudflare responded, “Very rarely. And usually when they think they’re emailing another Matthew at the company.”
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