On May 22, according to the Wall Street JournalCloudflare The CEO Matthew Prince published a comment post yesterday that revealed the logic behind the decision-making behind the company ' s downsizing beyond 20%。
He stated that this reduction was not due to the business difficulties of the company, characterized it as a proactive restructuring of the business, and cited managementist Peter Drook ' s 1954 book " Practice in Management " as a framework for analysis。
Prince divided the enterprise's internal positions into three categories: "builder" for product development, "seller" for market development, and "measurer" for internal audit, finance, law, compliance, mid-level management, and operations。
He believes that builders and sellers will not beAI(chemistry) substitution— INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN THE PRODUCTION OF ENGINEERS MEANS THAT COMPANIES WILL RECRUIT MORE ENGINEERS, WHILE SALES POSITIONS RELY ON INTERPERSONAL TRUST AND ARE EQUALLY DIFFICULT TO REPLACE. THE SURVEYORS ARE DIFFERENT, AND AI CAN DO THIS AT LOWER COST AND WITH HIGHER ACCURACY。
On the basis of this judgement, Cloudflare ' s main target of this reduction is the surveyor ' s group: middle management positions have been drastically reduced, operational functions have been consolidated into a unified team, and marketing and finance departments have contracted。
At the end of the article, Prince said that AI would not destroy all jobs, but would change the way each enterprise operates -- – The end result is to focus human beings more on two things that create and capture value: construction and marketing。