I am genuinely curious what protections are in place to ensure that? What is the plan after you are gone?

It looks like you have voting shares with 10x the power of institutional investors, but activist investors aren't dumb either.

My biggest fear of Cloudflare has always been that one day you'll get hit by a bus and someone will figure out that merging Cloudflare with an ad network would create so much more shareholder value. The road to hell is paved with free DDoS mitigation, so to speak.