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Matthew Prince
CEO of Cloudflare who controversially laid off staff he referred to as measurers in favor of AI.
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Summary
Matthew Prince is an American billionaire businessman, computer scientist, and executive who is best known as the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Prince has a background in law and business, holding degrees from Trinity College, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Business School. He co-founded Unspam Technologies and Project Honey Pot before launching Cloudflare in 2009 alongside Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway. In recent technology discourse, such as discussions on the All-In Podcast, Prince has been noted for his commentary on artificial intelligence, though his messaging regarding job displacement and anti-AI sentiment has faced criticism. Under his leadership, Cloudflare has also introduced tools to combat unauthorized AI scraping of web content.
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Father
John Browning Prince
Spouse
Tatiana Lingos-Webb
Education
Trinity College (BA), University of Chicago Law School (JD), Harvard Business School (MBA)
Full Name
Matthew Browning Prince
Net Worth
US$5.5 billion (as of February 2025)
Date of Birth
1974-11-13
Place of Birth
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Timeline
- Matthew Prince is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Source: Wikipedia)
1974-11-13
- Graduated from Trinity College with a BA in English. (Source: Wikipedia)
1996-06-30
- Graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with a JD. (Source: Wikipedia)
2000-06-30
- Co-founded Unspam Technologies, Inc. and began serving as its Chair. (Source: Web Search)
2001-12-01
- Graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA. (Source: Wikipedia)
2009-06-30
- Co-founded Cloudflare, Inc. alongside Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, serving as CEO. (Source: Web Search)
2009-07-01
- Won the Tech Fellow Award. (Source: Web Search)
2011-12-31
- Cloudflare terminated services for the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, marking a shift in its content neutrality stance. (Source: Web Search)
2017-08-16
- Cloudflare rolled out a tool to block unauthorized AI scraping, establishing a pay-per-crawl model. (Source: Web Search)
2025-07-01
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Matthew Browning Prince (born (1974-11-13)November 13, 1974) is an American billionaire businessman and executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$5.5 billion as of February 2025, Prince is the wealthiest person in Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City, Prince expressed an interest in computer science from an early age and graduated from Trinity College in 1996, the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and Harvard Business School in 2009. Prince began teaching at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law when the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 passed, inspiring him to found Unspam and Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software. In 2009, he created Cloudflare with Harvard Business School alumnus Michelle Zatlyn and Project Honey Pot co-founder Lee Holloway.
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- Matthew Prince - Wikipedia
Matthew Browning Prince (born (1974-11-13)November 13, 1974) is an American billionaire businessman and executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$5.5 billion as of February 2025,( Prince is the wealthiest person in Utah. [...] Matthew Prince was born on November 13, 1974, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City. His father, John Browning Prince, is a former journalist, restaurateur, and owned a stock brokerage firm, while his mother owned several gift stores; in high school, Prince worked for his mother. The Prince family, who have resided in Park City for multiple generations, assisted in the construction of various buildings in Park City, such as the Parleys Summit Ski Resort, the Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley, and the Yarrow Hotel. Prince's great-great-great grandfather was Jonathan Browning "Jonathan Browning (inventor)"), whose son, John Browning, designed Browning Auto-5—the first semi-automatic shotgun, the M2 Browning, and the M1911 pistol. When he was seven, Prince [...] American business executive (born 1974) This article is about the business executive. For the former professional wrestler, see Matt Prince. | Matthew Prince | | Prince in September 2015 | | Born | Matthew Browning Prince (1974-11-13) November 13, 1974 (age 51) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. | | Education | Trinity College, Connecticut "Trinity College (Connecticut)") (BA) University of Chicago (JD) Harvard University (MBA) | | Occupation | Businessperson | | Title | Co-founder, co-chair and CEO of Cloudflare | | Spouse | Tatiana Lingos-Webb | | Children | 1 | | Relatives | John Browning (great-great grandfather) |
- Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
# Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince ## Alex Kantrowitz 55100 subscribers 209 likes ### Description 9608 views Posted: 13 Aug 2025 Matthew Prince is the CEO of Cloudflare. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the web can survive the wave of generative AI chatbots that scrape websites, summarize them, and present their content to users without cutting in the content creators. Prince has a solution that Cloudflare is rolling out this summer, and he describes how online publishers can fight back. Tune in for a deep, technical discussion about the future of the web. [...] How will the web fight back against the wave of generative AI that is ingesting all the content on the internet but not paying for it? We're joined today by Matthew Prince. He's the CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare and has been on the war path attempting to write the ship. Matthew, great to see you. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Can you start by giving us a sense as to what is happening to the web with the rise of Gender AI? talked about it a bit on the show already, but I want to hear it from you. Yeah, absolutely. So, the the business model fundamentally of the internet over the last 30 years has really been driven by search. Uh you search for something that generates traffic. It takes you to content that someone has created. And then that content owner, that content [...] you know, one of the things that we do at Spotify is we actually take the searches that people run at Spotify, you know, that are things like, I want a song with a reggae beat about how much it, you know, sucks when your, you know, your sister runs away with your car and has happened. Yeah. Or whatever. And it turns out that they don't have good things to fill that in. There are content creators out there that are making tens of millions of dollars a year just creating content for those searches that don't have good results right now because Spotify surfaces that list of things where they don't they don't give those results. I think that that's actually beautiful. I think that's actually really amazing where they are showing where is there something that there is human need for and then
- Matthew Prince Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements
Speakers Bureau Click to Open Search Bar All American Speakers Bureau and Celebrity Booking Agency Click to Open Search Bar ## The Leading Speakers Bureau for Booking Top Entertainment, Celebrities, and Speakers. Matthew Prince Speaker Agent # Matthew Prince About Fees ## Matthew Prince Biography Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Inc. and has served as its CEO and Chair of its Board of Directors since July 2009. He also co-founded Unspam Technologies, Inc., a software and services company, and has served as its Chair since December 2001. He is also the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse. [...] Prince holds a BA in English and a minor in computer science from Trinity College-Hartford, a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. All American Speakers Bureau is a full-service talent booking agency providing information on booking Matthew Prince for speaking engagements, personal appearances and corporate events. Contact an All American Speakers Bureau booking agent for more information on Matthew Prince speaking fees, availability, speech topics and cost to hire for your next live or virtual event. ## Tag Cloud We are here to help! Call us to speak with a booking agent to discuss your event or specific speaker request. ## Matthew Prince Booking Agency: Celebrity Appearance Fees and Availability
- Matthew Prince – Global Inclusive Growth Summit
Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. in English Literature and Computer Science from Trinity College. He’s also the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse. ##### Organization Cloudflare logo ### Cloudflare ##### Useful links @eastdakota @mprince ## Appearing in play\_circle play\_arrow Understanding the cyber threat landscape Center for Inclusive Growth Logo [...] Global Inclusive Growth Summit Loader ##### Loading... Preparing your experience Center for Inclusive Growth Logo Center for Inclusive Growth Logo Headshot of Matthew Prince Cloudflare logo ### Matthew Prince Co-founder and chief executive officer Cloudflare # Matthew Prince Matthew Prince, Co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks, which spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries.
- Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins | WIRED
Prince is the cofounder and CEO of Cloudflare. Launched in 2010, the internet infrastructure company has found itself increasingly in the position of serving as the web’s bodyguard. It filters out bad traffic, keeps sites safe, and stops them from crashing when too many people visit. Its tools defend against DDoS attacks. In 2017, Cloudflare made headlines when it dropped white supremacist site The Daily Stormer. (Maybe Prince’s name is ringing a bell now?) [...] Katie Drummond Business # Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins The Cloudflare CEO joined The Big Interview to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet’s potential futures, and his company’s relationship to Trump. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Matthew Prince may not be a household name, but the world most certainly knows his work. [...] Cloudflare’s severing of ties with The Daily Stormer marked a momentous shift, one that came after years of claiming a neutral stance. Prince continues to evolve the way Cloudflare works. In July, the company rolled out a new tool tasked with blocking unauthorized AI scraping. It effectively creates a pay-per-crawl model requiring AI platforms to shell out money if they want access to a site’s content. On this episode of The Big Interview, I talked to Prince about publishing, the old internet, and how his ideal version of the future web means that OpenAI just might become the Netflix of content. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. KATIE DRUMMOND: Good to have you here, Matthew. MATTHEW PRINCE: Thanks for having me.
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Matthew Henson Avenue, Palmer Park, Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland, 20785, United States
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