Matthew Prince
Also known as eastdakota
Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
At a glance
Roles
Cloudflare (Co-founder & CEO)
Writing to start with
Cloudflare's 2026 Annual Founders' Letter, Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!, Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
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Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway
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- Matthew Prince co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, and is its CEO.
- He trained as a lawyer and taught cyberlaw before Cloudflare.
- With Lee Holloway he created Project Honey Pot, which tracks online fraud and abuse.
- He writes Cloudflare's annual founders' letter with Zatlyn.
Why it matters
- For anyone who builds on or depends on the web's infrastructure: he runs a network that sits in front of a large share of websites and sets its policies, such as on AI crawlers.
Key facts
- Current role
- Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare2
- Born
- November 13, 1974, Salt Lake City, Utah1
- Education
- BA, Trinity College (1996); JD, University of Chicago Law School (2000); MBA, Harvard Business School (2009)1
- Before Cloudflare
- Co-founded Unspam Technologies; created Project Honey Pot with Lee Holloway1
- Teaching
- Began teaching cyberlaw at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law in 20031
- Net worth
- US$5.5 billion, February 20251
Roles
Leads
- CloudflareOrganization
Co-founder & CEO source on Cloudflare
On the board of
Writing to start with
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Cloudflare's 2026 Annual Founders' Letter (opens blog.cloudflare.com)3
With Michelle Zatlyn: the founders' yearly letter.
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Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! (opens blog.cloudflare.com)3
Cloudflare's stance on AI crawlers using publishers' content.
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 (opens blog.cloudflare.com)3
His account of the November 2025 outage.
Connections
Related
- Michelle ZatlynPerson
Co-founded Cloudflare together in 2009 1
- Lee Holloway
Co-founded Cloudflare together; created Project Honey Pot together 1
Links
Sources
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