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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
No, again, as I said, I think we might be on the cusp of a golden age of content creation.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Because again, if we're designing content which is actually furthering human knowledge and the people who do that get rewarded as opposed to
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Or make people laugh or just entertain.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Those are all good things.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
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.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
And we should not be building business models that encourage that.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
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.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
And it's also just maybe more straightforward.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
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.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like at some level, just when you go to the website, you pay,
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
And that helps cover the, you know, cost of the journalist eating, but also the cost of actually delivering the website to you.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
It's kind of a more honest business model.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Everyone, like with Cloudflare, like one of the things that's been great about our business is super simple.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like we make money because people pay us.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like, you know, and they pay us because we make them faster, more secure, more reliable.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like those are the things that are there.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like we've never had kind of that ad-based business model.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
And it's always felt kind of a little bit confusing.
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
Like who's the customer?
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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince
You know, who's who's the who's who's the who's the product?