Matthew Prince
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You know, we've built a business that is that is running along.
And those are those are things that you don't get to you don't get to do again.
And so I think that she thinks that we still have some really good work to do on on things like Internet policy.
You know, it's it's pretty amazing that, you know, you think about the day in a life in my life, I get to talk to people.
politicians around the world talking about ideas like network neutrality and we're really listened to.
We really get to influence browser design.
We're working on things like encrypted SNI, which closes one of the real privacy holes in the internet.
That's
That's that that's pretty rarefied air that that we get to that we get to breathe.
And I think that she's she's really proud of the work that we're that we're doing.
And and and doesn't doesn't really think that I could I could do it again.
I don't even know what that is.
So tell me more what that is.
Well, I mean, I think, you know, if I wasn't the CEO of Cloudflare, I'd be worried about Cloudflare because because we are you know, we are a centralizing force.
And I think that the Internet goes through waves of technology in general, goes through waves of centralization, decentralization.
Jim Barksdale, one of the.
Co-founders of Netscape said there are only two ways to make money in technology.
You can either bundle or unbundle.
And so, you know, I think it is obvious that there will be great forces trying to figure out how to unbundle who the leaders are today and whether that's Cloudflare or Facebook or Google or otherwise.
that history doesn't stop.