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Matthew Prince who is the CEO of Cloudflare public company. Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my
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workforce. I didn't do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted record revenue growth have strong free
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cash flow. And he says basically he's getting rid of measurers. Measurers are
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the people who manage people and who measure data. They're unnecessary because of AI. I thought the Matthew
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Prince note was horrible. This was like from the PR school of retards. >> Okay, here we go.
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>> You could not have written a worse memo. You reduce humans to a label called the
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measurer. Yeah. And then you're like, I'm going to lay off all the measurers,
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who cares what Matthew Prince thinks. The reality is that if this is the way that you're going to message something
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as critical as this, I think you did a horrible job. And now you label these people and you put a scarlet letter on
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their back. So now when they try to get a different job, they're like, "Oh,
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you're one of the Cloudflare measurers." How does that help anybody? There's
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enough of these tech CEOs that are now public. You can hear them. You can understand them. And I think what we're
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learning is men. They're really good at one thing and they're not necessarily as
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good at all the other things. And so I would say shut the up. Get behind the keyboard. Just do your
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job. And if you need to manage something, just manage it, but don't write these misses. You're terrible at
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it. All of you. You're all terrible. You suck at this. Thank you for coming to my
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