- Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare12
Matthew Prince is a co-founder and the CEO of Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company that launched on September 27, 2010. Prince writes the company's annual founders' letters with co-founder Michelle Zatlyn and has led Cloudflare's push to make its Workers developer platform a place to build and run AI applications, including the acquisition of Replicate.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and CEO
- Company
- Cloudflare
- Sector
- Company
- Education
- Harvard, UChicago
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 4
- Profile reviewed
Career
Prince co-founded Cloudflare with Michelle Zatlyn, and the company launched on September 27, 2010. Cloudflare's press releases identify Prince as co-founder and CEO, and Prince is a frequent author on the company blog, from founders' letters to technical incident and product posts.312
AI and the web
In July 2025 Prince announced "Content Independence Day," on which Cloudflare changed its default to block AI crawlers from customer sites unless they compensate content creators. In November 2025 Prince announced Cloudflare's agreement to acquire Replicate, an AI platform for deploying and running models, to make Workers an end-to-end platform for AI applications.41
Cloudflare's 2026 founders' letter, published on the company's sixteenth anniversary, describes a surge of new websites since mid-2025 built by people using AI coding tools, most of which use Cloudflare's developer platform as their deployment target, and automated traffic overtaking human activity.32
Work and contributions
Cloudflare Workers AI platform
As CEO, announced in November 2025 the agreement to acquire Replicate so that developers on Cloudflare's Workers platform could find, deploy and run AI models on its global network.1
Annual founders' letters
Author, with Michelle Zatlyn, of Cloudflare's yearly founders' letters, published around the company's September launch anniversary, which in 2026 discussed AI agents and a new cohort of creators building with AI coding tools.23
Timeline
- Cloudflare, which Prince co-founded, launched.3
- Published Cloudflare's 2024 annual founders' letter.2
- Announced Cloudflare's move to block AI crawlers by default unless they compensate creators.42
- Announced Cloudflare's agreement to acquire the AI model platform Replicate.1
- Published Cloudflare's 2026 annual founders' letter on AI agents and new creators.32
Where they work
- Cloudflare 3 people in the wiki
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- Dane KnechtAlso at Cloudflare
- Michelle ZatlynAlso at Cloudflare
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References
4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026