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Prince: 80% of AI companies are Cloudflare customers
“80% of the AI companies are our customers of ours, and so, so we project them as well.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 34:25 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Disclosure
Prince: Cloudflare working with IETF and regulators on robots.txt extensions
“And so what we've proposed, and we're working with the IETF as well as regulators is extensions to robots.txt to give it that granularity.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 36:59 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Insight
Prince: AI content licensing fails if competitors get content for free
“What I know won't work is if open AI is paying for your content, but you're giving it away for free to everyone else.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 43:18 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Disclosure
Prince: Cloudflare is collaborating with Shopify and payment giants on AI commerce
“I'm spending a lot of time with, you know, Shopify you know, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express you know, Intuit, the companies that actually deal with these small businesses and saying, how can we bring together the tools in order to make sure that th…”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 47:40 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prince: Google crawl rate has stayed consistent over 10 years
“And we have very reliable data at Cloudflare going back 10 years, looking just at Google and the metric that has stayed very consistent over time is how much Google crawls the web. They've actually crawled at a very consistent rate over the last 10 years.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 2:08 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
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