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by TechBro8615 1887 days ago
In most of these cases, the companies growth from startup to not-startup was only possible because of their infrastructure advantage. Do you think Cloudflare the startup could have offered a free tier if they had to pay Amazon $0.10 per GB that their users sent over the network?

Of course not. But the free tier was a vital component of Cloudflare's growth, first-mover advantage and wide adoption.