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		lucb1e on Feb 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Akamai to Acquire Linode What are you comparing? Surely DigitalOcean isn't bigger than Cloudflare or do I have my perception entirely backwards? Guessing that you're comparing DigitalOcean to Linode instead, 50M seems like a very small difference actually. Btw I find the large split words as numbers ("makes 150M more" -> "makes a hundred fifty million more") quite hard to read, but maybe that's just me.

ac29 on Feb 16, 2022 [–]

For 2020 (the last full year for both companies):

Cloudflare (NET) has higher revenue: $431M vs $318M

Digital Ocean (DOCN) has higher profit (net income): -$44M to -$119M

Cloudflare is growing revenue faster, but also increasing losses to get there.

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