Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare found in June that bots made up more than half of internet traffic. That number just
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Cloudflare, a company that operates a large network to make the internet faster and safer, is positioning itself to help shape how the internet's business model evolves as artificial intelligence transforms web traffic. Bot traffic now exceeds human traffic online, driven by AI companies scraping the web and AI agents performing tasks, which means infrastructure costs must be paid for differently than the traditional advertising model that powered the internet for decades. Cloudflare sits between websites and these AI agents, allowing website owners to block AI tools, allow them, or require payment for access. The company is grappling with how to build a healthier business model for an internet where automated traffic will vastly outnumber human traffic.
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