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Tom Leighton

91% approve of CEO

Mission We Power and Protect Life Online
Description At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you’re streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we’re the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world’s most distributed platform — from cloud to edge — to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
- Cloud and edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
- Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
- Content delivery: Scaling the world’s biggest moments without a glitch.
- AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don’t just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we’re the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit “play” or “pay,” Akamai ensures it just works.

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