{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Week in NET","title":"My First Day at Cloudflare Was the Day After the IPO — Heather Orsi","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4c659001\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":885,"description":"In this episode of This Week in NET, Heather Orsi, Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at Cloudflare, shares her unusual career path across finance, startups, and tech, and what it means to communicate Cloudflare’s story to investors and analysts.\n\nHeather talks about her first days at Cloudflare just after the IPO, what it takes to explain a highly technical company to Wall Street, and how finance, strategy, and storytelling come together in investor relations.\n\nThis conversation is part of the Women of Cloudflare series for Women’s Empowerment Month.\n\nCheck the Cloudflare Blog:\nhttps://blog.cloudflare.com\n\n🎧 Subscribe for weekly conversations about the Internet and Cloudflare:\nhttps://ThisWeekinNET.com\n\n⸻\n\n⏱️ Timestamps\n00:38 — From banking and startups to Cloudflare\n02:21 — Joining Cloudflare right after the IPO\n04:16 — Explaining a deeply technical company to investors\n06:31 — Communicating Cloudflare’s story to analysts\n08:51 — The role of investor relations inside a tech company\n11:16 — Being a woman in finance and tech\n13:11 — Advice for people starting a career in finance","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JEk1CAhFcWIBJOFKIzKfdvQ-zUX6aXTuOCJVJJHruOk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYThl/MjA0YjY3NjRjMzE4/NTdlZTdjMzFjNjll/YTM1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}