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Founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn in San Francisco, Cloudflare was born out of a spam-fighting project called Project Honey Pot. The company built one of the world's largest and most interconnected networks, now spanning over 300 cities in 100+ countries. Cloudflare protects and accelerates millions of websites including major enterprises, governments, and critical internet infrastructure. The company went public on the NYSE in September 2019 and has since expanded from its core CDN and DDoS protection products into a comprehensive security and edge computing platform. Cloudflare's Workers platform allows developers to run code at the edge globally, and its Zero Trust products are transforming enterprise network security.

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Matthew Prince

Founder / CEO

Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Matthew co-founded Project Honey Pot, a spam-fighting network, before building Cloudflare to help protect the internet at scale. He is one of the most prominent voices in internet security and privacy policy and has been a vocal defender of internet freedom and online civil liberties.

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Michelle Zatlyn

Co-Founder / President

Michelle Zatlyn is the co-founder and President of Cloudflare. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where she met Matthew Prince. Michelle has been instrumental in building Cloudflare's go-to-market strategy and company culture. She is one of the few female co-founders of a major publicly traded tech company and is a prominent advocate for diversity in technology leadership.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare

Founded2009
BatchW2010
Team Size4,000
StatusPublic
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
CategoryCybersecurity