Matthew Prince
Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, whose Workers platform runs AI models and applications at the network edge
- Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare21
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.213
Career
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.42
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.31
Work
Cloudflare Workers AI platform (external site: cloudflare.com)
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.2
Annual founders' letters (external site: blog.cloudflare.com)
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.13
Career timeline
Sep 27, 2010
Cloudflare, which Prince co-founded, launched.3
Sep 22, 2024
Published Cloudflare's 2024 annual founders' letter.1
Jul 1, 2025
Announced Cloudflare's move to block AI crawlers by default unless they compensate creators.41
Nov 17, 2025
Announced Cloudflare's agreement to acquire the AI model platform Replicate.2
Sep 27, 2026
Published Cloudflare's 2026 annual founders' letter on AI agents and new creators.31
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