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Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and security company behind its CDN, DDoS protection, and Workers platform.

Known aliases

  • @eastdakota
  • Matthew Prince

Current stories

investConfirmed3 publishers

Zuckerberg says Meta will take a commission on Muse purchases as app tops 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks

Meta will take a commission on purchases made through its Muse agent, which Quartz reported drew more than 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks without giving any purchase counts. Walmart, Sephora, Expedia and Shopify are partners.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption70
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence60
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Cloudflare's planned certificate authority targets Q1 2027 for post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates

Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority and start production issuance of post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates in the first quarter of 2027. Teams planning a post-quantum migration now have an issuer-side date to test web PKI against.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 45%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption8
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare lets site owners admit only the AI bots that might pay

Cloudflare says bots are over half of internet traffic and lets sites block AI tools, allow them, or admit only those that might pay. With payment schemes still unsettled, picking one is a revenue bet made on the gatekeeper's own numbers.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence40