Matthew Prince: Prioritizing Cloudflare ruined personal relationships during early startup years
Matthew Prince · Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 16, 2023 · at 26:42
Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. In a discussion on romantic relationships versus co-founder dynamics, Prince reflects on how building Cloudflare impacted his early personal life.
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“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 came first, and I screwed up a whole bunch of relationships because of that, and then I think finally when I got to a place where I felt like I had some stability and comfort, and met an amazing woman, that was the point in time where, where, you know, I sort of said, okay, I'm ready, ready to get married.”
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