Cloudflare Hired 1,000 Interns to Accelerate AI-Native Workflow Adoption
Dane Knecht shares that Cloudflare hired 1,000 interns over the course of the year for their 5,000-person company because younger cohorts are fully AI-native and help accelerate the internal adoption of AI tools.
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“So then this past summer, this past year, we decided we were going to hire a thousand interns.”
Dane Knecht
“So that's, you know, for a 5,000 person company. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Over the course of the year.”
Dane Knecht
Heard on No Priors — “Democratizing Security for the Agentic Web with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht”, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.