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Prince: App stores and Facebook damaged the open web
“And the app store in some ways was an enormous threat to the web. Like it took people away from the web. It was probably one of the biggest, between it and Facebook were like the two biggest forces that really made the web less interesting.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 6:44 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
Opinion
Prince: Defining internet monetization is tech's most important question
“Over the next five years, figuring out what the business model of the next 30 years of the internet, like, that's the most interesting and important question in technology today, by far.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 9:25 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
Opinion
Prince: AI bots should pay heavily for content so humans read free
“Humans should get content for free again, because we've kind of paywalled way too much, frankly. And robots should pay a ton for it. Because again, every time a robot ingests something, it's in service of, Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of different hu…”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 18:41 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Opinion
Prince: 99 percent of AI spending is currently being lit on fire
“I believe today that 99 out of, cents out of every dollar spent on AI is just being lit on fire. But that one cent that's out there Is gonna generate real returns.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 49:38 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Opinion
Prince: WordPress's underlying PHP technology is too inefficient for AI scale
“WordPress, most popular platform for hosting content. That's out there is running a programming language called PHP, not the most efficient programming language.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 14:50 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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Prince: Cybersecurity defenders will outpace attackers via superior AI data access
“At the end of the day, who wins in the AI risk is whoever has the access to the most data. And I just think that the good guys are always going to have access to a lot more data than the bad guys.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 48:45 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
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