Matthew Prince
37 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 10 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2019 by Santi Subotovsky · said 17 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Matthew Prince, oldest first
Jul 15, 2019 negative
Subotovsky: Emergence Capital missed out on investing early in Cloudflare
“So the biggest miss that I've had is when I first joined Emergence one of my good friends and classmates, Matthew Prince and Michelle, were getting started with Cloudflare, and I invited them to present here at Emergence, and I didn't know how venture worked, …”
Oct 16, 2023 negative
Matthew Prince: Broad platforms rarely originate from narrow product niches
“I think it's very rare to find someone who said, I started out just trying to build, you know, the platform for, you know, People to sell snowboards, and I, and, you know, and I ended up building, building Shopify, or I started out, you know, building that sma…”
Oct 16, 2023 negative
Prince: The eBay Beanie Babies origin story is a PR myth
“So I've talked to the founders of eBay about that. That's complete and utter PR retrospective BS. And the reason that a lot of stories look like that is because almost nobody Once, if you're in the, you're the journalist that, that, that you said before we sta…”
Oct 16, 2023 positive
Prince: Cloudflare Succeeded Because Its Founders Were Silicon Valley Outsiders
“I think part of Cloudflare's success was we were nobodies. Like we didn't know anyone and we didn't get invited to all the fun parties and we weren't part of the cool kids group. And I think as a result, there was, we just focused on, How do we, you know, buil…”
Oct 16, 2023 positive
Prince: Tough Mudder May Be More Successful Than Cloudflare
“I think it's an open question whether, you know, they've been more successful or we've been more successful. Like, they have no costs. They've got this thing that's just a machine that just kicks off a ton of cash, and he can go and focus on, you know, other t…”
Oct 16, 2023 negative
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Oct 16, 2023 neutral
Cloudflare designated Michelle Zatlyn as temporary CEO in public succession plan
“When we went public we had to go through, like, a succession planning exercise, you know, if Matthew gets hit by a bus who steps in as a CEO and the board decided, and I think this is publicly filed that, you know, Michelle would step in on a temporary basis a…”
Oct 16, 2023
Cloudflare splits decisions: Prince controls product, Zatlyn controls go-to-market and HR
“Today at Cloudflare, as we think about things, when we have a question of what product to build, ultimately, I'm the one who makes the decision on, on that. But Michelle has a ton of input and is, is helpful. But at the end of the day, it's my decision. On the…”
Oct 16, 2023 positive
Michelle Zatlyn's husband runs bootstrapped ventures aiming for $3M cash flow
“It's actually Michelle my business partner, her husband, he's got two other guys and the three of them just churn out bootstrap businesses and they try to get each of them to cash flow basically three million dollars a piece. Cause then they can basically each…”
Oct 16, 2023 positive
Matthew Prince: Low-drama co-founder dynamics set an organization's overall culture
“And I think a lot of times the fact that, you know, she and I have been doing this now for, you know, over 14 years and We have hard conversations, but we get along. We don't have fights. We're really, we're low drama. I think that that echoes down through the…”
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Prince: Almost all startup founders begin with wild, massive visions
“It is very hard to find an actual startup founder that, that started out saying, we're going to do this small niche thing, and then it grew into this, is this big task. Almost everyone early on, you know, it's why founders, you know, can come across as so, so …”
Oct 16, 2023 negative
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Matthew Prince: Prioritizing Cloudflare ruined personal relationships during early startup years
“I feel very fortunate to have dated some just incredible people over, over the years, and especially during the time of starting, starting Cloudflare, and it could have worked out with almost any of them but I think what happened was, you know, your company ca…”
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Oct 16, 2023 positive
Matthew Prince: Founders need a big vision for fundraising, recruiting, and resilience
“When you're fundraising, you have to present a big picture. When you're recruiting, you have to present a big picture. When, even, even when you're just trying to keep your mental health of why is this so hard? You have to believe in that big vision.”
Oct 16, 2023
Matthew Prince made his first money selling illegal fireworks in fourth grade
“In about fourth grade or so I had access to a bunch of illegal fireworks. And I would sell them at school, which was, made me really popular with the other kids, but not so popular with their parents. And so I think that that, that probably something around th…”
Oct 16, 2023 positive
Prince: Choosing co-founders is a founder's second most important life decision
“And, you know, the probably most important thing that you do in your life is pick who your partner is in, in, in, in, you know, whether it's marriage or whatever, whatever you believe in. And I think then the private second most important thing, if you're a fo…”
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Prince's management rule: Check personal health issues when employee behavior abruptly changes
“And I try now when people you know, their behavior changes dramatically. To ask, you know, is there something going on in their personal life? Is there something going on with their health? Is there something else that's out there?”
Oct 16, 2023 negative
Matthew Prince: Founders who stay too long harm their companies
“There is a right time to step away from the company that you founded. And I think there are people who have held on to it too long and sometimes, you know, at the detriment of their company and some of the really smart people that could take the company over.”
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Oct 24, 2023 positive
Prince: Bootstrapped Tough Mudder might be more successful than Cloudflare
“I think it's an open question whether, you know, they've been more successful or we've been more successful. Like, they have no costs. They've got this thing that's just a machine that just kicks off a ton of cash, and he can go and focus on, you know, other t…”
Oct 24, 2023 negative
Prince: Expanding a tiny niche product into Shopify is extremely rare
“I think it's very rare to find someone who said, I started out just trying to build, you know, the platform for, you know, People to sell snowboards, and I, and, you know, and I ended up building, building Shopify, or I started out, you know, building that sma…”