5 Interesting Learnings from Cloudflare at $2.8 Billion in Revenue: 36% Growth, a 20% Layoff, and a Stock at 50x Revenue

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    "excerpt": "by Jason Lemkin | 5 Interesting Things , Blog Posts , Scale Cloudflare latest quarter reported of $696.1 million, up 36%, which annualizes to $2.8 billion. Three months earlier, it had cut more than 1,100 roles, about 20% of the company, and the stock dropped 23%. In Q2 growth accelerated, and the stock jumped 17% after hours. Four days later Cloudflare raised $2.5 billion at a 0% coupon. Let’s dig into … Why. Cloudflare closed at $355.01 on October 6, a market cap of about $126 billion. It ended September 2025 at $214.59. The path in between: The multiple, on market cap to trailing twelve months revenue: Over the year, trailing revenue grew about 34% and the multiple expanded about 25%. Together they account for the 65%. The quarterly growth series since Q1 2025 runs 27%, 28%, 31%, 34%, 34%, 36%. Revenue beat the $664.7 million consensus by $31 million. The expansion numbers moved with it: The guide is lower. Q3 is guided to $736 to $737 million, or 31% growth, and the full year to $2.864 to $2.870 billion, or 32%. By my arithmetic that implies about 29% in Q4. The CFO said the contract mix now makes quarter-to-quarter revenue harder to forecast, so guidance stays prudent. The cut was announced May 7 alongside Q1 results. Cloudflare had 5,156 full-time employees at the end of 2025. Matthew Prince told employees internal AI usage had grown more than 600% in three months, and...",
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