Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder and President of Cloudflare; co-author with Matthew Prince of Cloudflare's annual founders' letters
- Co-founder and President, Cloudflare1
- Member of the board of directors, Atlassian1
Michelle Zatlyn is a co-founder and the President of Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company that launched on September 27, 2010. Before co-founding Cloudflare, Zatlyn held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two startups. With co-founder Matthew Prince, Zatlyn writes Cloudflare's annual founders' letter, which in 2026 discussed the rise of AI agents and automated traffic on the Internet.1243
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Zatlyn and Matthew Prince co-write Cloudflare's annual founders' letters, with letters from 2020 through 2026 listed on Zatlyn's Cloudflare Blog author page. The 2026 letter described how automated traffic from AI agents and crawlers passed human activity on the Internet earlier than the company had forecast. In 2021 Zatlyn announced Cloudflare's first Canadian office and team.245
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Cloudflare annual founders' letters (external site: blog.cloudflare.com)Show, channel, or publication
Co-writes, with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare's annual founders' letter published each year around the company's September launch anniversary.234
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