Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model
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Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model

B1IntermediateSeptember 9, 20261 hr 11 min
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What happens when AI agents become the internet’s dominant users? This week, Jason sits down with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince to explore how AI agents could fundamentally reshape the internet’s business model. They discuss 1,000x agent traffic, why everything wrong with the world is Google's fault, AI flattening organizations, micropayments at unprecedented scale, and whether AI becomes the new interface to the internet. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:45 How The Internet Got Here 05:52 Did Ads Break Society? 10...

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Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products. All right, everyone. Welcome back to Empire. I got the CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, on the show today. Matthew, welcome, man. Thanks for having me. How's life? It's good. I'm in Park City, Utah. Fall in Park City is beautiful. So it's great.

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Yeah, nice, man. Well, very excited to have this conversation. I think there's a couple a couple of big topics looming on my mind. One is, you know, you've been running this company for 17 years, 16 years now.

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So I wanna hear what it is like to be in year 16, 17, running in, it feels like very AI first company, but before that, and we should definitely talk about all the work you guys are doing in crypto,

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