<![CDATA["Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era."]]>"Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era."

I wonder how many c-suite comms teams ever tell the people who write sentences like this one that, before you hit send, please understand that zero people will believe this. Exactly zero people. None people.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b9fd5bc5-a149-424c-b087-ff7efba3994e/today-s-actions-are-not-a-cost-cutting-exercise-or-an-assessment-of-individuals-performance-they-are-about-cloudflare-defining-how-a-world-class-high-growth-company-operates-and-creates-value-in-the-agentic-ai-era.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:52:07 GMTFri, 08 May 2026 17:05:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Sat, 09 May 2026 00:28:51 GMT]]>@mhoye Truth is not the purpose. This is Ritual: they perform Ritual so the stock market will provide them with Grace. The amount of Grace is dependent on the quality of the Ritual.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/rmi/statuses/116541786101635740https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/rmi/statuses/116541786101635740Sat, 09 May 2026 00:28:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 22:56:19 GMT]]>@mhoye @wendynather I disagree. There are a dozen or so board members and a few activist investors who believe this.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dpp/statuses/116541422279841976https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dpp/statuses/116541422279841976Fri, 08 May 2026 22:56:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 22:03:27 GMT]]>@slothrop @mhoye

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/be/statuses/116541214389140730https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/be/statuses/116541214389140730Fri, 08 May 2026 22:03:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 21:34:51 GMT]]>@mhoye goodness, these people are full of themselves, aren’t they

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/mkoek/statuses/116541101923957312https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/mkoek/statuses/116541101923957312Fri, 08 May 2026 21:34:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:49 GMT]]>@mhoye What I find somewhat comforting is that the shareholders didn't seem to believe either this time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Oytis/statuses/116540661367268030https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Oytis/statuses/116540661367268030Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:10 GMT]]>@mhoye zero because then they’d have to admit those writers won’t be here after they hit send.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.io/users/bexelbie/statuses/116540658863727202https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.io/users/bexelbie/statuses/116540658863727202Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 19:02:06 GMT]]>@mhoye This is a category error; truth and belief are non-goals. They don't care who believes it, only that journalists publish it verbatim (they will) so that the statement can be referenced in later defensive court filings.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116540501317137572https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116540501317137572Fri, 08 May 2026 19:02:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 18:38:35 GMT]]>@mhoye “At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. That mission is ambitious, long-term, and requires constant innovation. But building for the future isn’t just about the technology we create — it’s also about investing in the people who will create it. “

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1111-intern-program/ (Sept. 2025)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/designfactotum/statuses/116540408817357647https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/designfactotum/statuses/116540408817357647Fri, 08 May 2026 18:38:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 18:36:12 GMT]]>@floe @mhoye that sentence is more glib even than what most LLMs put out.

I feel like whoever wrote this is the kind of person who looks up to Peter Thiel.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540399474409075https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540399474409075Fri, 08 May 2026 18:36:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:51:37 GMT]]>@eigen I guess he didn't intentionally supercharge the value enough.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116540224152057433https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116540224152057433Fri, 08 May 2026 17:51:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:47:00 GMT]]>@mhoye huh: the stock value between yesterday & today does not appear to have appreciated this blog post 😛

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mattstodon.panar.ooo/users/eigen/statuses/116540206019276945https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mattstodon.panar.ooo/users/eigen/statuses/116540206019276945Fri, 08 May 2026 17:47:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:35:04 GMT]]>@slothrop @mhoye I actually hope an LLM wrote that paragraph because whatever it was never had a soul to begin with 😑

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/floe/statuses/116540159033710800https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/floe/statuses/116540159033710800Fri, 08 May 2026 17:35:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:31:01 GMT]]>@mhoye i think you could even completely negate this and it would be a more true statement: "Today's actions are a cost-saving exercise and an assessment of individuals’ performance. They are about Cloudflare defining how a struggling company dealing with high-profile failures malfunctions and destroys value in the agentic AI bubble."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/chrisamaphone/statuses/116540143144803963https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hci.social/users/chrisamaphone/statuses/116540143144803963Fri, 08 May 2026 17:31:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:18 GMT]]>@mhoye That's entirely unfair...the statement is largely true, this cut isn't about cost cutting...that's totally incidental side benefit.

And it's about defining how a world-class, high-growth company and creates value...

The only note I have is that there is a passive voice in the second part.

I would reword: "The are about aligning with how investors (the VC or "Epstein" class) believe high-growth companies should create value. Sorry, but your sacrifice will generate significant short term growth on the stock exchange."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/danbrotherston/statuses/116540136417697353https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/danbrotherston/statuses/116540136417697353Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:24:56 GMT]]>@mhoye "world class, high growth company creates value" but not for the likes of us.

Ah, the joys of corpobullshit, where any fiduciary terminology is for the people who already control all the money.

Eat the rich.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/greem/statuses/116540119234164125https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/greem/statuses/116540119234164125Fri, 08 May 2026 17:24:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:23:35 GMT]]>@mhoye the exec class don’t really care if any believes these types these press releases.

This release successfully changed their story to “CEO is clanker” when it would have been Q1 EPS is $0.25 and Q2 earnings have been adjusted downwards.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/illegalhex/statuses/116540113899118531https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/illegalhex/statuses/116540113899118531Fri, 08 May 2026 17:23:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:19:43 GMT]]>@mhoye I’ve done my share of corporate PR, I’m not proud of most of it; but that sentence is barely fit for human consumption

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540098692563273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540098692563273Fri, 08 May 2026 17:19:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:17:45 GMT]]>@mhoye @glyph It’s something they feel like they have to say, at least for now.

I think it will eventually be dropped as the actions become more de-personalized. Look at how cuts went from being big all hands meetings, to Zoom calls, to emails, to disabling access immediately.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://linuxlab.sh/users/palendae/statuses/116540091006112621https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://linuxlab.sh/users/palendae/statuses/116540091006112621Fri, 08 May 2026 17:17:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:16:59 GMT]]>@slothrop behold my loaf of mba wordburger

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116540087943036854https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116540087943036854Fri, 08 May 2026 17:16:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:13:21 GMT]]>@mhoye my eyes got permanently crossed somewhere in the middle of this glorious corpospeak sentence:

“That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere. ”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540073665309818https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116540073665309818Fri, 08 May 2026 17:13:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:12:50 GMT]]>@mhoye

"Omnicorp does not provide security per se, but a complete concept of security"

(The CEO of Omnicorp, Robocop)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tomjennings/statuses/116540071626939927https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tomjennings/statuses/116540071626939927Fri, 08 May 2026 17:12:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era." on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:10:24 GMT]]>@mhoye where do we fall on other c-suite folks on the "are people" spectrum? I have a sneaking suspicion that they are all sort of peer pressuring each other into this stuff and that some of them believe it. 😬

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mspsocial.net/users/Unlikelylass/statuses/116540062067794893https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mspsocial.net/users/Unlikelylass/statuses/116540062067794893Fri, 08 May 2026 17:10:24 GMT