Azeem Azhar

They may decide they don't want to chase after the machine god.

They may decide that pricing needs to be more sensible and there's more financial discipline.

We might even see faster innovation alongside democratization with diverse teams living on this affordable infrastructure.

So there is perhaps some light outside of the doom that a bust might otherwise present us.

Today, I am thrilled to welcome Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare.

It's a company that sits at the very heart of the internet.

You might not know of it, but I'm pretty certain that at some point in the last 24 hours, Cloudflare has helped you get something done on the web.

The company funnels about a fifth of all internet traffic to us.

Now, as we move into the age of AI, Matthew is once again at the heart of thinking about how that technology is going to affect the internet at scale.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Viewers know I love the pipes of the internet, and that means I have a soft spot for this company.

I've even got the t-shirt.

But that doesn't mean I'm going to give our guest an easy ride.

Welcome to the show, Matthew.

Thanks for having me.

We're at an inflection point in the way the internet gets used.

How broken is the content model that has funded it for the last 25 years?

As you say, it's something that's been going on for a few years.

I think Google was early with this idea of the one box, the one box at the top that constructed an answer and delivered what we wanted, which is we wanted the temperature in X, or we wanted to know the answer to a simple recipe.

And this seemed to be, as you say, the evolution.