Matthew Prince

13 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2026 by Matthew Prince · across every show →

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Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Prince: Spotify paid out ~$12B last year, exceeding music industry market cap 22 years ago
“Spotify last year sent something like 12 billion dollars Out to music creators. That's more than the entire music industry's market cap was. 22 years ago, which is extraordinary.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:23:19 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matthew Prince: Ad-supported web business models fail because bots don't click on ads
“The business model of the last 28 years, which largely advertising based doesn't work because bots don't click on ads.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:15:26 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Insight
Prince: AI's biases are useful because they are uncorrelated with human team biases
“The really interesting thing is it's also uncorrelated to all the other biases that are within an organization. A team of people working together will tend to develop A set of biases. And that doesn't mean that AI doesn't have biases, but they're uncorrelated …”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 55:12 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Cloudflare built an AI agent trained on 10 years of incident data to review code releases
“We actually built an agent that not only reviews every code release that we send out, but every configuration change. So if you go into the cloudflow dashboard, you push a button that generates a file that then gets pushed out to the rest of our network. And w…”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 54:06 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026
Disclosure
Prince: About half of Cloudflare customers want AI bots consuming their content
“Probably half of our customers are in that camp where they actually want to make it as easy as possible.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:17:08 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Prince: Local newspaper to earn more from AI licensing than display ads
“My wife and I bought the local newspaper in our hometown, Park City, Utah. I think we will make more this year off AI licensing deals than we do off display ads.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:26:15 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Prince: More money goes to music creation per GDP today than ever in history
“We can quibble about are the right people getting the money or not, but there's more money going into music creation today on, on, on per capita per GDP. Than any time in human history by far.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:22:47 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Prince: Cloudflare viewed early VCs strictly as money sources without wanting advice
“What our style tended to be was we thought of venture capitalists primarily as, you know, sources of money and, you know, mostly sort of, we wanted when we needed money, we wanted to be able to access capital, no thought leadership, but we, yeah, we really jus…”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 31:32 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Insight
Prince: AI will boost engineering and sales hiring while replacing corporate measurement roles
“If I have a developer and I can now give them AI tools and they're 10 times as productive, I'm gonna hire as many developers as I can. If I, you know, have a salesperson and I can give them tools that eliminate the parts of their job that they don't like, whic…”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:04:47 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Insight
Prince: Co-founders asking how to divide responsibilities likely have wrong partners
“If you're asking that question, it probably means you have the wrong co-founders.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 35:21 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Prince: AI resistance among mid-career workers risks creating a lost generation in tech
“I really do worry that we're going to have this sort of lost generation of sort of either, you know, young millennials or older Gen Z folks that just, they, they're, they were sort of, they're going to have incentives to say we shouldn't use these tools becaus…”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 59:00 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Prince: Log4j-level software vulnerabilities will be found weekly for two years
“You know, I think for the next you know, a 104 days, a 104 weeks. So two years you're going to see a log for J like vulnerability every single week.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 52:50 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Jun 25, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prince: Major publishers land better AI deals using Cloudflare content controls
“What we've seen is if you go across the biggest publishers in the world, Condé Nast, Dot Ash Meredith, you know, they are, they, because we've now given them these tools, they're actually signing much better deals with the AI companies.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:17:56 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
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