Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses copyright disputes and legal action taken against Cloudflare by European soccer leagues.
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Prince: Bot traffic will be 1,000x human internet traffic in five years
“And I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, going, going, you know, forward, say five years, that, that bot traffic will be a thousand times human traffic online.”
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Prince: A Golf Course Uses More Water Than All US Data Centers
“A golf course uses more water than probably all the data centers in the United States over, over the course of a year.”
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Prince: Cloudflare's network peering makes bandwidth effectively free
“Bandwidth for us is effectively free.”
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Prince: Cloudflare often avoids paying for space or power
“And because of where we deploy systems, we often are in places where
We don't have to pay for the space or the power, which allows us to then pass those savings on to customers.
So it can be significantly more cost effective to use inference with us than it …”
Insight
Prince: Public market investor relationships are healthier and more honest than VC
“It's really hard to fire your VCs. It's hard for your VCs to fire you. And so as a result, like actually it's kind of dysfunctional. Whereas public market, like I love our investors because if I do something stupid, they call me up and they say, that was stupi…”
Opinion
Prince: Companies have substantial control over their first-day IPO pop
“Like you have a lot of control over how much the pop is going to be. And we sat with bankers and we were like, listen, we want it to go up about. And they were like, okay, if you wanted to go up to 20%, you price it right here. So we priced it right at that po…”