Matthew Prince
Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, after meeting Zatlyn at Harvard Business School. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @eastdakota.
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Their wordsWhether you like it or not, the future will increasingly be answers not searches.
↗Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letterblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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An AI agent’s visit to a site should be governed by different rules than a human’s visit.
Their wordsA visit from an agent isn’t the same as a visit from a human and therefore should have different rules of the road.
↗Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letterblog.cloudflare.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsBut it’s also critical to realize that the right solution to that current conundrum isn’t that no one pays, it’s that, new or old, everyone who benefits from the ecosystem should contribute back to it based on their relative size.
↗Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letterblog.cloudflare.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsInstead of being a fair trade, the web is being stripmined by AI crawlers with content creators seeing almost no traffic and therefore almost no value.
↗Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!blog.cloudflare.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThat content is the fuel that powers AI engines, and so it's only fair that content creators are compensated directly for it.
↗Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!blog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsThe magic of the Internet was that anyone with an idea could put it online and, if it resonated, thrive without having to pass through a gatekeeper.
↗Cloudflare’s 2022 Annual Founders’ Letterblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsHard cases make bad law. This is a hard case and we would caution anyone from seeing it as setting precedent.
↗Blocking Kiwifarmsblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFor an infrastructure provider like Cloudflare, legal process is still the correct way to deal with revolting and potentially illegal content online.
↗Blocking Kiwifarmsblog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsBut given the significant impact of our services on the availability and security of the Internet, we believe removing our services from Russia altogether would do more harm than good.