Matthew Prince

No, again, as I said, I think we might be on the cusp of a golden age of content creation.

Because again, if we're designing content which is actually furthering human knowledge and the people who do that get rewarded as opposed to

Or make people laugh or just entertain.

Those are all good things.

Whereas if you've just written the same story as cheaply as possible and put an incendiary headline on top of it, that's a per se bad thing.

And we should not be building business models that encourage that.

And so I do think that there's something, there's something that's really, really, you know, potentially amazing if we, if we get this right.

And it's also just maybe more straightforward.

Like it's kind of weird that like you go to the website to read the thing and then you get monetized by an ad that's there.

Like at some level, just when you go to the website, you pay,

And that helps cover the, you know, cost of the journalist eating, but also the cost of actually delivering the website to you.

It's kind of a more honest business model.

Everyone, like with Cloudflare, like one of the things that's been great about our business is super simple.

Like we make money because people pay us.

Like, you know, and they pay us because we make them faster, more secure, more reliable.

Like those are the things that are there.

Like we've never had kind of that ad-based business model.

And it's always felt kind of a little bit confusing.

Like who's the customer?

You know, who's who's the who's who's the who's the product?