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Michelle Zatlyn

Michelle Zatlyn

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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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3 of Michelle Zatlyn's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Collective action problems, Conservation of complexity.

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Collective action problems

What everyone would gain from, nobody provides alone, so shared goods need someone or something to hold people together.

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The answer to content being free for some AI companies and paid for by others is not that no one pays, but that everyone who benefits from the ecosystem contributes back in proportion to their size.

  1. Michelle Zatlyn Co-founder and President of Cloudflare But 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 · 21 Sept 2025All korrents from this piece
    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

    21 Sept 2025

Building an Internet that meets the world’s needs takes a global community collaborating, not any one company or individual.

  1. Michelle Zatlyn Co-founder and President of Cloudflare Building 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. Welcome to Birthday Week 2019blog.cloudflare.com · 22 Sept 2019All korrents from this piece
    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.

    ↗Welcome to Birthday Week 2019blog.cloudflare.com

    22 Sept 2019

Conservation of complexity

Some complexity cannot be removed, only moved; the question is who carries it, the user or the maker.

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A one-person business just getting started should not need an IT team to make its website fast and secure.

  1. Michelle Zatlyn Co-founder and President of Cloudflare But 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 · 23 Sept 2018All korrents from this piece
    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

    23 Sept 2018