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Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

by jgrahamc on 3/27/25, 8:22 PM with 16 comments

  • by mpeg on 3/30/25, 9:18 PM

    Man, I remember when you used to run the unofficial HN job board, I sent you a role to post there and you did (probably the first role I ever was involved in hiring for!), I spent the rest of the day bragging to people in the office about how the "Alan Turing guy" had replied to my email

    Next thing I knew, Cloudflare was everywhere. What an incredible run! Really well deserved, I wish you the best in your new role

  • by johng on 3/27/25, 8:35 PM

    I am both amazed and a bit scared about how big Cloudflare has become. They offer so much value for free. I have a couple of paid services with them, and I also now use them for my domain registrar. The amount of traffic that flows through Cloudflare is unreal. It's a single point of failure if you want to call it that -- but from a website owner's perspective -- the caching and bandwidth savings for free is a hard bargain to pass up.
  • by sudsred on 3/28/25, 5:59 PM

    In my own humble opinion, jgc is the reason behind Cloudflare's open culture and incredible post-mortems. Thanks for making Cloudflare an incredible company to work for and with John. <3
  • by MattSayar on 3/28/25, 10:08 PM

    Congrats on your promotion(?) and I wish you well in your new position. I enjoy reading your comments around here and look forward to seeing how you continue to steer the company from a different seat.
  • by asim on 3/27/25, 8:35 PM

    Wish you well in your new role John. You did a great job as CTO.
  • by tiffanyh on 3/29/25, 6:36 AM

    So excited for you jgrahamc!
  • by tosh on 4/2/25, 3:00 PM

    Incredible run, all the best going forward!
  • by SomethingSubtle on 3/27/25, 8:48 PM

    Huzzah! Well deserved.