Decoder with Nilay Patel · Saturday, September 26, 2026
Matthew Prince states that Cloudflare's mission has evolved from simply making the internet faster and more secure to actively rebuilding it for the future. He emphasizes the company's role in shaping the evolving business model of the internet in response to AI's growing influence.
“What I, what I would say if I actually was sort of interested in talking to the person more is, probably that Cloudflare is trying to rebuild the internet the way it should have been built from the beginning, if we knew how important it was going to be.”
“And I think the thing that we've recently started thinking about is the business model of the internet is changing dramatically. And, uh, and we're starting to work on shaping what that future business model of the internet looks like and how can we make it as healthy as possible.”