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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by everfrustrated on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:42PM (#45376186)
Much of their model and success was by giving away a lot of service for free.

I'm not discounting their innovations but had they not been VC funded and given away free service I suspect many would still never have heard of them.

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by jtbaker on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:02PM (#45382145)
> had they not been VC funded and given away free service I suspect many would still never have heard of them.

What does this purity test accomplish? that's just how things work in this industry. Can you name a company that has innovated on their scale that hasn't taken VC?

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