Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder and President of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, after the two met at Harvard Business School. Grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @zatlyn.
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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 2nd 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 4th 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 6th of 6 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 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 14 months earlier
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Their wordsWe started our company with the basic idea that high-end networking services like security, content delivery, and reliability features should be available for everyone.
- 22 months earlier
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Their wordsBuilding an Internet that can meet the world’s needs cannot be done by any one company or individual; rather, it takes a global community — from nonprofit organizations and businesses to governments and individuals — collaborating to deliver new standards, technologies, and innovations.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsWhen we build a product, we always ask ourselves how does this impact an individual’s privacy? We want to be a leader in terms of privacy.
↗Cloudflare Turns 8 — here’s what we mean by a “better Internet”blog.cloudflare.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThis open set of standards let thousands of ideas bloom, and it is part of what has made the internet so great. We’re committed to that idea.
↗Cloudflare Turns 8 — here’s what we mean by a “better Internet”blog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut if you’re a one-man shop just getting started, you shouldn’t need an IT team to be able to make your website fast and secure.
↗Cloudflare Turns 8 — here’s what we mean by a “better Internet”blog.cloudflare.com 3rd of 3 in this piece