The only thing I have in common with Justin Timberlake is that we've both been 'SWAT-ed,'" says CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince. In 2012 an armed rescue team stormed his company's downtown San Francisco office ready to defuse a hostage situation called in by a prankster. It was the first of many visits from the SWAT team and Maggie the bomb-sniffing dog. Prince is used to unwanted attention. Federal agents occasionally show up at his offices with court orders rather than guns, demanding to know who's been sending Web traffic over CloudFlare's servers.
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