Co-founder, CEO and co-chair, Cloudflare
Matthew Prince is co-founder and chief executive of Cloudflare, and also serves as executive chairman. Wikipedia says he co-founded the company in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway.
Career facts from the sources
- While studying law at the University of Chicago he worked at Latham & Watkins; he later worked for the online insurance company GroupWorks.
- From 2003 he taught cyberlaw at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
- He co-founded Unspam Technologies, which supported Project Honey Pot, an open-source tool he created with Holloway; Cloudflare grew out of that work.
In the news
Cloudflare, which he leads, said on October 21, 2026 that its firewall blocked php2shell exploit attempts from 3:02 UTC, and announced trust scores for verified bots on October 16, 2026.