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Matthew Browning Prince[1] (born (1974-11-13)November 13, 1974)[2] is an American billionaire businessman and executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$5.5 billion as of February 2025, Prince is the wealthiest person in Utah.

Key Information

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City, Prince expressed an interest in computer science from an early age and graduated from Trinity College in 1996, the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and Harvard Business School in 2009. Prince began teaching at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law when the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 passed, inspiring him to found Unspam and Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software. In 2009, he created Cloudflare with Harvard Business School alumnus Michelle Zatlyn and Project Honey Pot co-founder Lee Holloway.

Early life and education

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Matthew Prince was born on November 13, 1974, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City.[2] His father, John Browning Prince,[3] is a former journalist, restaurateur, and owned a stock brokerage firm, while his mother owned several gift stores; in high school, Prince worked for his mother.[4] The Prince family, who have resided in Park City for multiple generations, assisted in the construction of various buildings in Park City, such as the Parleys Summit Ski Resort, the Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley, and the Yarrow Hotel.[5] Prince's great-great-great grandfather was Jonathan Browning, whose son, John Browning, designed Browning Auto-5—the first semi-automatic shotgun, the M2 Browning, and the M1911 pistol.[6] When he was seven, Prince received an Apple II Plus for Christmas. Prince's mother would sneak him into computer science classes at the University of Utah.[4] He attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in 1988.[7] In Park City, he worked as an assistant ski instructor.[8]

In 1996, Prince graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature and minoring in computer science.[9][4] There, he was the editor-in-chief of The Trinity Tripod.[10] As a freshman, he co-created the online-only magazine The Trincoll Journal with Peter Adams and Paul Tesco.[11] He then was graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000 with a J.D. degree and from Harvard Business School in 2009 with a Master of Business Administration as a George F. Baker Scholar.[12][13][14]

Business career

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Early career

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While pursuing a degree from the University of Chicago, Prince worked at Latham & Watkins, and upon graduating, he worked for the online insurance company GroupWorks.[15] In 2003, Prince began teaching cyberlaw at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. He co-wrote a paper on the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 following its passage in the UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law.[16] The creation of the National Do Not Call Registry through the CAN-SPAM Act inspired Prince to create Unspam, a spam-prevention software for email. Prince co-founded Unspam Technologies, which supported the development of Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software created by Prince and Lee Holloway designed to gather information on IP addresses used by email-address harvesting services.[9]

Cloudflare

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Matthew Prince speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in 2019

In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contacted Unspam Technologies, asking, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" The DHS' email served as the impetus for Cloudflare, a technology company Prince co-founded with Holloway and fellow Harvard Business School graduate Michelle Zatlyn the following year.[12] Cloudflare's team won the Dubilier Prize from Harvard Business School, receiving a total of US$50,000 in cash.[17]

Prince's personal information was leaked in 2012 and used by the hacker group UGNazi to facilitate a DNS hijacking attack against 4chan. UGNazi were able to forward Prince's AT&T phone number to a Google Voice number using a Social Security number the group purchased for several dollars. The transfer allowed the group to receive a two-factor authentication code for Prince's personal Gmail account, which he used as a backup for his corporate account, and were able to redirect 4chan to UGNazi's Twitter account. According to group member Eric Taylor, Prince was warned of the attack a day before it occurred through an AT&T relay; Prince confirmed that he received several calls from an AT&T relay.[18] Within a day, Cloudflare had identified three members of the group, who were also customers of Cloudflare.[19] In 2014, Prince's house was searched by a SWAT team after a spoofed number called 9-1-1 claiming that someone had a gun in his house.[20]

Cloudflare received significant attention for providing service to the Chechen news site Kavkaz Center. The Kernel journalist James Cook contacted Cloudflare about the site, sharing the email with editor-in-chief Milo Yiannopoulos, to which Prince responded by writing a blog post rebuking the email's content and writing, "A website is speech. It is not a bomb."[21] He spoke out against National Security Agency gag orders in September 2013.[22] Despite maintaining a free speech stance, Prince personally suspended service for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. An internal email by Prince and obtained by Gizmodo said that he felt compelled to act after users of The Daily Stormer began boasting that Cloudflare was "one of them". In a blog post, he later stated that suspending service opens sites open to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.[23] According to a 2019 article by The Atlantic, the suspension happened because the site published an article celebrating the murder of Heather Heyer.[24] Prince defended suspending Kiwi Farms' service in September 2022 after the site engaged in a harassment campaign against Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti in August of that year.[25]

The Park Record

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See also: Park Record

In March 2023, Prince and his wife Tatiana acquired the newspaper The Park Record from Ogden Newspapers[26] and now provides digital articles for free.[27] The Princes intend on converting the newspaper into a non-profit or public benefit corporation and adding Spanish-language coverage.[5][27]

Personal life

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Prince and his wife Tatiana (née Lingos-Webb)[28] reside in Park City, Utah. They have a daughter.[29] According to Forbes, Prince has a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of March 2023, making him the second wealthiest person in Utah behind Gail Miller.[30] He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[14]

In October 2022, Prince's representatives had asked Park City planners for permission to tear down a 7,000 square feet (650 m2) main house and guest house Prince owned on King Road and build a mansion, guest house, pool, and parking garage in their place. The blueprints would approach Treasure Hill, a US$64 million open space purchased by taxpayers in 2019. The matter came before the planning commission. On the same day language was added to a Senate bill that would allow Prince to tear down the houses without involvement from the committee, Prince hired lobbyist Lincoln Shurtz. The legislation failed in the House of Representatives.[30]

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Matthew Prince is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of , Inc., a San Francisco-based company that provides services, , and web security to protect and accelerate properties for millions of customers worldwide. Born on November 13, 1974, in , , Prince earned a in English from Trinity College in 1996, a from the , and a from . Prior to Cloudflare, he worked as a and launched early ventures, including a startup acquired by the company that became Project Honey Pot, a honeypot network for tracking online abusers. Under Prince's leadership, launched publicly in 2019, achieving rapid growth to serve over 20% of companies and handling a significant portion of global , with innovations in , zero-trust security, and privacy-focused tools like encrypted DNS. He owns approximately 8% of the company, contributing to his status as a . Prince has advocated for technical solutions to internet challenges, including recent efforts to block unauthorized AI by limiting bot access, arguing it preserves content creators' incentives without relying on unproven regulatory fixes. Prince's tenure has included high-profile decisions to terminate services for sites hosting extremist content, such as the neo-Nazi forum Daily Stormer in 2017, which he justified as a measure after the site praised Cloudflare's role in shielding it from attacks, though he later voiced reservations about the precedent for private companies arbitrating speech. Similar actions, like blocking in 2022 amid harassment claims, drew criticism for enabling without , highlighting tensions between corporate risk management and free expression online. These choices, often framed by Prince as pragmatic rather than ideological, underscore Cloudflare's gatekeeper position in internet infrastructure.

Early Life and Education

Upbringing and Early Interests

Matthew Prince was born in 1975 in , . His upbringing occurred in a of entrepreneurs, with his having worked as a before founding a stock brokerage firm, instilling values of self-reliance and initiative from an early age. Prince demonstrated an initial interest in computing as a child, writing his first at age seven by attending university courses arranged by his mother. In his early twenties, Prince worked for six months as a ski instructor in , an experience that honed practical problem-solving skills amid the demands of a mountainous, outdoor environment. This period reflected the self-reliant ethos of his family's background and Utah's rugged terrain, where adapting to variable conditions—such as weather and equipment issues—built resilience applicable to later technical challenges. Around 2000, frustrated by pervasive during his years, Prince registered the domain "unspam.com," an early foray into addressing annoyances through technology that foreshadowed his entrepreneurial focus on digital security. This initiative marked his initial hands-on engagement with web-related problems, driven by personal irritation rather than formal training.

Academic Background

Matthew Prince received a degree in English, with a minor in , from Trinity College in , graduating in 1996. His undergraduate coursework bridged humanities and technical disciplines, providing foundational exposure to alongside analytical reading and writing skills. Prince then pursued legal studies, earning a from the in 2000. This training emphasized rigorous legal analysis and precedent-based reasoning, which Prince later applied to challenges in internet infrastructure and cybersecurity during the early 2000s era of emerging online vulnerabilities. He completed a at in 2009 as a George F. Baker Scholar, further integrating business strategy with his prior academic foundation in law and technology.

Professional Career

After earning his from the in 2000, Prince practiced as an attorney and served as a law professor, focusing on emerging issues in , including disputes and online fraud. His work during this period exposed him to the limitations of traditional legal mechanisms in addressing scalable digital threats, such as the rapid proliferation of unsolicited commercial email that evaded jurisdictional boundaries and enforcement challenges. Prince co-founded Unspam Technologies in the early 2000s, developing patented systems for "no-contact" registries analogous to do-not-call lists, aimed at empowering users and businesses to block spam at the source. The venture faced legal pushback, including a from a pornography distributor alleging interference with commercial speech, which highlighted the tension between anti-spam tools and First Amendment protections in U.S. courts. Concurrently, he contributed to Project Honey Pot, a collaborative initiative deploying honeypot servers to trap and analyze spammer behavior, providing data for and forensic tracking of malicious online activities. These efforts underscored Prince's pattern of tackling practical web vulnerabilities through technology, informed by his legal training in crafting enforceable rules like model anti-spam legislation. Recognizing the inefficiencies of litigation-dependent approaches—such as those under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, which Prince critiqued for inadequate deterrence—Prince shifted toward entrepreneurial tech solutions offering broader, automated scalability over case-by-case legal remedies. His writings, including analyses of state and federal anti-spam laws, emphasized the need for hybrid legal-technological frameworks to combat abuse effectively, reflecting a pragmatic pivot from courtroom advocacy to software-driven interventions. This phase marked as his third startup, building on lessons from Unspam's operational and litigious hurdles.

Founding and Expansion of Cloudflare

Cloudflare was co-founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway with the initial goal of enhancing web security against threats like DDoS attacks and improving overall internet performance by reducing latency. The company emerged from earlier collaborative efforts, including Project Honey Pot, which traced email spam origins, leading to a focus on broader network protection. A private beta launched in June 2010, followed by a public debut on September 27, 2010, at TechCrunch Disrupt, where it quickly attracted early adopters seeking reliable defense during rising cyber threats. In the ensuing years, experienced rapid operational scaling, processing 1 billion requests within its first year and reaching 10 billion page views monthly by , serving approximately 250 million unique visitors. This growth enabled protection of major websites amid prominent DDoS incidents, expanding from an initial handful of customers to millions of properties relying on its for uptime and mitigation. The company's network footprint grew steadily, adding data centers to cover more regions and handle surging traffic volumes without compromising service reliability. Cloudflare went public on September 13, 2019, listing on the under the ticker NET at a price of $15 per share, marking a valuation milestone that fueled further infrastructure investments. By that time, its spanned 193 cities across over 90 countries, positioning it to serve a vast customer base with enhanced proximity to end-users. Post-IPO, expansion continued, emphasizing scalable delivery of security and services to millions of sites worldwide, solidifying its role in edge-based operations and secure access models.

Key Innovations and Business Achievements

Under Matthew Prince's leadership as co-founder and CEO, pioneered advancements in content delivery networks (CDN), web application firewalls (WAF), and distributed denial-of-service (, enabling scalable protection that absorbs massive attack volumes across its global anycast network. These tools integrate to inspect and filter traffic in real-time, reducing latency while blocking threats; for instance, Cloudflare's DDoS solutions scored highest in threat detection and burst attack mitigation in independent evaluations. By distributing defensive capacity over 300+ data centers, the platform effectively dilutes attack intensity, mitigating incidents that would otherwise overwhelm individual sites and contributing to a broader contraction in exploitable global attack surfaces through proactive bot management and . In response to Russia's invasion of on February 24, 2022, rapidly deployed free protective services to the .ua and approximately 130 Ukrainian government and sites, sustaining online access amid intensified cyberattacks. This effort absorbed surges in malicious traffic, preventing widespread disruptions to like emergency response and financial systems. For the 2020 U.S. elections, launched "Cloudflare for Campaigns" on January 15, offering gratis , WAF, load balancing, and bot management to political entities, which thwarted numerous attacks and was adopted by most states. These measures handled elevated traffic and threat volumes without downtime, analyzing trends across protected sites to refine defenses against targeted probes. In 2025, Prince drove the introduction of the "Pay Per Crawl" model on July 1, allowing content owners to block or monetize AI crawlers by default, addressing unchecked scraping that undermines web sustainability; this innovation earned him inclusion in TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI list for empowering publishers with revenue streams tied to data access. The system logs crawler requests and facilitates micropayments, potentially generating new income for sites while curbing free-riding by AI firms on public web content.

Controversies and Public Debates

Content Moderation Decisions

In August 2017, following the on August 12 that killed Heather Heyer, terminated its services to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, ceasing to proxy traffic and resolve DNS requests for the site as of August 16. Matthew Prince, 's CEO, announced the decision via an internal and public blog post, citing the site's celebration of the attack and the resulting business risk to 's operations and employees, though he noted the action deviated from the company's prior policy of neutrality on content. The move sparked internal employee debates, with Prince later describing it as a unilateral executive call amid pressure from staff and external threats. On August 5, 2019, ended services to effective midnight Pacific Time, after the site's role in hosting manifestos linked to mass shootings, including the El Paso attack on August 3 that killed 23 people, where the shooter referenced prior posts. Prince justified the termination in a blog post, stating had "proven themselves to be lawless" by repeatedly facilitating real-world violence, marking the second such high-profile under his leadership. In September 2022, blocked access to on September 3, citing an "imminent and emergency threat to human life" from the site's campaigns, including doxxing and threats against Canadian activist Clara Sorrenti that prompted her temporary displacement and a manhunt for a stalker. Prince detailed the rationale in a blog post, emphasizing the prioritization of employee safety—after internal reports of credible threats—and arguing that while generally avoids content judgments, direct links to potential violence warranted intervention beyond speech protections.

Free Speech Implications and Criticisms

Matthew Prince articulated a foundational defense of online speech in August 2013, stating that "a is speech. It is not a ," emphasizing that infrastructure providers like bear no affirmative duty to monitor or restrict content absent imminent harm or legal mandates. This position aligned with first-principles arguments for minimal intervention in digital , yet 's later actions, such as terminating services to sites deemed abusive, introduced exceptions driven by liability risks and reputational pressures, diverging from absolute libertarian non-interference. Prince himself described one such termination as "arbitrary," predicated on protecting the company's commercial viability rather than consistent ideological application. Free speech advocates, including the (EFF), have critiqued these selective interventions as establishing "weak links" in the internet's that facilitate , where decisions amplify pressures from activists or governments to enforce prevailing narratives, particularly those aligned with institutional biases in media and policy circles. The EFF has argued in dialogues with executives that providers at the network layer should refrain from content judgments, as such actions undermine the decentralized resilience of the web and invite subjective enforcement that disproportionately impacts dissenting voices. Right-leaning commentators have echoed these concerns, portraying Cloudflare's choices as enabling left-leaning control by leveraging monopoly-like power, though shows no legal obligation for neutrality, revealing business over mandated impartiality. Conversely, Cloudflare's initiatives demonstrate tangible protections for speech under threat, as through Project Galileo, which has safeguarded nearly 600 organizations—including journalists and groups—from DDoS attacks often wielded as tools of state censorship, thereby countering empirical patterns of government suppression in regions like and authoritarian states. This protective role highlights causal trade-offs: while selective reflects incentives tied to and legal compliance, the net effect includes bolstering vulnerable speech against asymmetric attacks, prioritizing operational over unattainable purity in a profit-driven .

Media and Local Business Involvement

Ownership of The Park Record

In March 2023, Matthew Prince and his wife Tatiana acquired The Park Record, the twice-weekly newspaper serving as the official record for Park City and Summit County, Utah, from Swift Communications, a subsidiary of Ogden Newspapers. The deal, announced on March 28, preserved the 143-year-old publication's role in covering local government, business, and community events since its founding in 1880. The Princes stated their acquisition aimed to secure the newspaper's long-term viability against broader industry pressures, including reduced for local outlets. They emphasized a dedication to maintaining independent local coverage, with Prince noting in follow-up discussions that the paper would remain a stable community resource. Post-acquisition, operational shifts included offering all for free to increase and readership among Summit County residents. Prince has actively contributed to the publication through opinion pieces focused on verifiable local issues, such as a 2024 op- critiquing aging at and proposing targeted improvements based on historical usage data from the 1980s onward. This approach prioritizes fact-based analysis of community-specific challenges over broader ideological narratives, aligning with the owners' goal of bolstering the paper's role in empirical, ground-level reporting.

Park City Development Initiatives

In May 2025, Matthew Prince acquired the Town Lift Plaza, a key property at the base of Park City Mountain's Town Lift on , from the Sweeney family through a for an undisclosed sum. This purchase positioned Prince to influence base-area development, with expressed intentions to enhance lift access and pursue additional holdings to promote local economic vitality. Prince has advocated for a long-discussed ski interconnect project to link Park City Mountain with adjacent Resort, commissioning a that includes potential terminus along . He has critiqued ' management of Park City Mountain, offering in May 2025 to purchase the resort outright to restore local control and improve operations, though Vail rejected the bid citing its strategic importance. Amid reported activist investor pressures on Vail in August 2025, Prince reiterated readiness to acquire the asset if opportunities arise, framing it as a means to address gaps and boost regional connectivity. Prince's home development efforts on have involved legal challenges to Park City's land-use decisions, including a December 2024 lawsuit contesting the Board of Adjustment's denial of his proposed mansion overlooking Old Town. In March 2025, state legislation (SB 262) enabled municipal settlements of such administrative disputes without court mandates, facilitating potential resolution and allowing preliminary excavation on the King Road site pending final approval. These pursuits underscore Prince's commitment to navigating regulatory hurdles for property enhancement, contributing to sustained local investment despite opposition from neighbors and city bodies.

Views on Technology and Society

Perspectives on Internet Governance

Matthew Prince has articulated a layered model for , emphasizing responsibility starting at the individual user level and escalating only as necessary to higher layers such as platforms, hosting providers, and finally network infrastructure. This approach aims to confine interventions to the narrowest possible scope to avoid disrupting broader , likening the internet's structure to a tower where removing foundational blocks risks collapse. He argues that platforms bear primary responsibility for moderating , with infrastructure providers intervening rarely to preserve the network's foundational stability. Prince rejects free speech absolutism in favor of a due process-oriented framework, describing the U.S. tradition of broad expression protections as a "radical, radical, radical experiment" rooted in libertarian principles but not universally applicable. In a 2021 interview, he critiqued efforts to impose uniform global speech norms, noting divergent standards—such as stricter hate speech regulations in compared to the U.S.—and warned against infrastructure-level enforcement that could fragment the along national lines. This stance reflects a preference for minimal centralized intervention, allowing jurisdictional differences to evolve organically rather than through top-down mandates. Positioning Cloudflare as a neutral "network provider" akin to plumbing , Prince defends its role in accelerating and securing without assuming curatorial duties over content, cautioning against over-reliance on such layers for moral or ideological policing. He contends that expecting invisible to enforce subjective standards undermines the internet's end-to-end design principle, where networks should avoid discriminating against lawful . Empirically, he supports pragmatic, rules-based exceptions—such as sanctions lists targeting known sources of spam or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks—to address tangible threats to functionality, as unchecked abuse like spam floods or DDoS campaigns can degrade service for millions, necessitating targeted over ideological purity.

Positions on AI and Web Sustainability

In July 2025, , under Prince's leadership, implemented a default policy to block AI crawlers from scraping websites unless the operators agreed to a pay-per-crawl model, enabling content creators to charge for access to their data for AI training purposes. This initiative built on a September 2024 one-click blocking option adopted by over one million customers, aiming to prevent unauthorized extraction by bots from firms like while allowing opt-in compensation mechanisms to incentivize sustainable data use. Prince positioned this as a market-driven solution to address the economic externalities of AI training, where large models consume vast without remuneration, potentially eroding incentives for original creation. Prince has critiqued the freeloading practices of dominant AI companies as a form of unsustainable , arguing that without payment structures, these firms—concentrated among a few oligarchs—risk consolidating control over information flows at the expense of diverse web ecosystems. In 2025 interviews, he advocated for regulatory scrutiny of bundled search and AI crawling, as seen in his push to authorities to unbundle Google's practices, emphasizing that economic incentives must align to preserve an open internet rather than allowing uncompensated data hoarding. Prince warned of dystopian ""-like scenarios in 2025 public statements, predicting that if AI oligarchs like those behind leading models fail to adopt models, the web could devolve into a system dominated by five tech giants curating media narratives, stifling independent and content diversity. He described this as a "frighteningly likely" outcome driven by causal incentives, where unmonetized scraping accelerates content commoditization, but countered it with pay-per-crawl as a pragmatic fix to redistribute value back to creators via verifiable transactions. This stance underscores his view that web sustainability hinges on enforcing property rights through technology, not vague governance, to counterbalance AI's extractive dynamics.

Personal Life

Family and Residence

Matthew Prince is married to Tatiana Prince. The couple resides in Park City, Utah, where they have established long-term roots tied to the local skiing culture. Prince has described falling in love with skiing during time spent in Park City, an experience that shaped his affinity for the area's outdoor lifestyle. He previously worked as a ski instructor, reflecting early engagement with the community's winter sports heritage. Public information on the Princes' family life remains limited, with the couple prioritizing discretion regarding personal matters beyond their shared residence and regional ties. In recent years, they have pursued construction of a single-family home on King Road overlooking Old Town, underscoring their commitment to staying in the locale.

Net Worth and Lifestyle

As of October 26, 2025, Matthew Prince's net worth stands at $6.7 billion, stemming predominantly from his approximately 8% ownership in , the cybersecurity and web infrastructure firm he co-founded in 2009. Prince maintains a lifestyle centered in , where he resides and pursues interests tied to the area's ski culture, including past experience as an assistant ski instructor at local resorts. His discretionary activities reflect a focus on regional investments, such as acquiring the Town Lift Plaza base area property from the Sweeney family in May 2025 for an undisclosed amount, aimed at enhancing access to skiing infrastructure. In August 2025, he endorsed a for a potential ski resort interconnect linking Park City Mountain with nearby terrain, including a possible terminus, to expand recreational options. Prince has voiced public criticisms of ' management of Park City Mountain, proposing in May 2025 to purchase the resort outright to prioritize skier experience over corporate efficiencies, amid activist investor pressures on Vail. While no major personal philanthropic foundations are documented, under his leadership offers free protective services through initiatives like Galileo, safeguarding non-profits, journalists, and groups from cyber threats, though these represent corporate rather than individual commitments.

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