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Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince

Chief executive officer at Cloudflare

Appears in 5 stories

Born: November 13, 1974, Salt Lake City
Education: Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, Trinity College

Last updated Nov 1, 2026

Stories

PHP vulnerabilities exploited as websites worldwide go offline

New Capabilities

Said exploit attempts rose from thousands to millions, but none of Cloudflare's customers were affected

Palo Alto Networks confirmed that attackers chained the PHP2Shell flaws with a Linux kernel bug to take root control of its firewalls, and shipped hotfixes for PAN-OS 12.2, 12.1, 11.2, 11.1 and 10.2. Unit 42, the company's threat research arm, said it independently verified the tooling and results that Dream Security described.

Updated Nov 1

Paris court spares Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 from piracy blocking penalties

Rule Changes

As of October 2026: Leads the company that won the Paris ruling

A Paris court has refused to fine Cloudflare for leaving its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 out of court-ordered piracy blocking. Canal+ wanted €50,000 a day for every pirate Formula 1 and MotoGP site that stayed reachable through the resolver.

Updated Oct 11

Internet concentration risk

Built World

As of May 2026: Leading post-incident response and policy discussions

On February 16, 2026, a misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours and degrading AWS's largest region. Thousands of other websites went down too. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fix because corrupted routing tables spread to upstream providers.

Updated May 29

The race to build AI's payment layer

Money Moves

As of May 2026: Leading Cloudflare's AI economy strategy

For two years, AI companies have trained their models on web content without paying for most of it. That era may be ending.

Updated May 21

Cloudflare’s 2025 outages expose fragility in internet infrastructure

Built World

As of May 2026: Publicly accountable for repeated outages through early 2026 and ongoing reliability reforms

From November 2025 through February 2026, Cloudflare suffered multiple major global outages, including a three-hour disruption on November 18, 2025, a 25–30 minute WAF misconfiguration incident on December 5, 2025, a BGP routing failure on January 22, 2026, and edge network instability on February 4, 2026. These events temporarily took down services like LinkedIn, Zoom, Shopify, Coinbase, ChatGPT, X, Spotify, and others that rely on Cloudflare's edge network, content delivery, and security services, affecting a significant portion of global HTTP traffic during peaks.

Updated May 9