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Prince thinks almost every company will cut workforce in 6-12 months
“I do think in the next six to 12 months, almost every company is going to go through some exercise like this where they're going to cut a bunch of their team.”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 1:07:30 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Prince predicts bot traffic will be 1,000x human traffic within five years
“I think that if you extrapolate this out, you know, in five years, I think you'll see a thousand times more bot traffic than human traffic. And if I had to take kind of an over under bet on that, I'd take the over bet that it's just going to, it's growing at s…”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 3:43 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Prince: There will never be a 14th DNS root server
“There will never be a 14th root server, and the organizations that run them will probably never change as well”
Matthew Prince Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 17:36 Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
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
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
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
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