Matthew Prince

And in the future, that's going to be something which, again, I think that you're going to have much more of a willingness to pay from the AI systems that are there, especially if you can imagine, like if it's just five AI companies, then that's not as healthy.

But if we have, if we literally have thousands that are out there and you have one that's going to be like

I am going to be the world's best English literature professor as a, you know, as a service.

Like, of course, they're going to have to read every single academic paper that's out there, and they'll be willing to actually pay for that, assuming there's a market for somebody who wants to say, I'm going to hire, you know, English literature as a service GPT.

But I think it's more likely in a world that is valuing furthering human knowledge as opposed to a world that's valuing traffic.

There's a lot of hand-waving in what I just said, but we know a couple things.

We know the business model of the web is going to change.

We know the things that worked well in the previous business model.

We know the things that broke in the previous business model.

And I think we can largely, not everyone, but we can largely agree on what we would like a better web in the future to look like.

And so given those things, I think it's up to anyone who thinks deeply to actually say, okay,

It's very rare that you have opportunities where a organization or an institution as large as the internet has its business model fundamentally change.

And if it does, like, what should we be aiming for it to change to?

I can't imagine any question that's more exciting to be thinking about and working on.

And I'm excited about how many of the top academic game theorists and economists and market designers are

helping us try to think through what could a healthier business model of the future of the web look like.

And again, maybe it has Cloudflare involved, maybe it doesn't, but I think we should all be trying to think about what it should look like in an ideal case.

I think go ask your journalist, what's the story that you've always wanted to tell, but your editor says, no one's going to care about that, right?

There's so many of those things that are out there.

What audience are you serving?