Irtefa
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Irtefa
@_irtefa
Head of Models @Cloudflare. Founder at @jamdotdev.





🍊 It's been 90 days for me at @Cloudflare ...
👇 Here's what has surprised me
• There's very little ceremony or overhead when it comes to shipping, everyone is here to build
• Cloudflare is extremely high agency — there's alignment but it's just enough and most of it exists to unblock folks
• Management is very technical up and down the hierarchy, every leader / manager here talks in specifics
• Executive tier is extremely engaged, in various channels, very responsive, knows the details
• Startup mentality is pervasive; I thought we'd slow down after the Replicate acquisition but we've sped up
👇 Here's what I love
• Community. Reminds me a lot of my favorite parts of GitHub. Folks here are superfans of one another's work. They want to meet & hang and we're collectively excited when someone new joins the club.
• The primitives that we get to build on are excellent -- all built to be distributed at massive scale by default
• Hardware! We source and build our own hardware!
• We dogfood everything, you build "on platform", you have good stat sig day one!
• Innovation is funded everywhere -- "what if we built this on






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