Michelle Zatlyn

“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, …”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“And it was actually Michelle who was like, that's the idea. We're building that. And so it wasn't really even my aha moment. It was actually Michelle's.”