Matthew Prince Biography

Matthew is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the biggest networks operating on the Internet. People use Cloudflare services for the purposes of increasing the security and performance of their web sites and services. Matthew wrote his first computer program at age seven when his mom would sneak him into university computer science courses. He went on to study English Literature and Computer Science in college before oddly skipping out on the first Internet boom to instead attend law school. After finishing law school Matthew worked as an attorney for one day before joining a Chicago-based tech startup. He went on to co-found Unspam Technologies an anti-spam startup where he continues to serve as Chairman. Since then Matthew has been an adjunct professor of law at the John Marshall Law School and co-creator of Project Honey Pot the largest open source community tracking online fraud and abuse. He started CloudFlare with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway in 2009 and in 2013 Matthew made the San Francisco Business Times’s 40 under 40 list and CloudFlare was named the most innovative internet and network company by the Wall Street Journal. He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. Along with being a regular contributor to TechCrunch and PandoDaily Matthew has spoken at the RSA conference Black Hat Summit Web Summit and is a frequent panelist for TechCrunch Disrupt. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and awarded the Dubliner Prize for Entrepreneurship.

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