I don't know what you mean by "trusted", but how many times do folks have to go through the same loop?

   - Company has great initial product
   - Company gets popular
   - Shareholders demand infinite growth
   - Company becomes rent-seeker
   - GOTO 10

I'm with OP - a company that wants to insert itself in the middle of everybody's business is not being altruistic, they're playing the long game.

▲ viraptor 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't know what you mean by "trusted",

It means "hi spending approver, I'm going to add $100 to our CF account" instead of "hi accounting+management+security, please initiate the process of evaluating new third party vendor Foo for use in my project, I hope we can get it approved and integrated into SSO sometime next month".

▲ tomrod 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

CloudFlare is FedRAMP high. This is a pretty big deal for a lot of a certain type of system owners.

▲ deadbabe 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is nothing wrong with “inserting yourself in the middle of everybody’s business”. That is how you reduce friction between parties and make optimizations that are only possible by being able to manage both sides of the connection. It’s also a really good way to make money.

	▲	ryandvm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well... there's "nothing wrong" with being a car dealership either. "Wrong" is a funny way to look at it.