Matthew Prince

If you could start over

and you didn't have sort of all the assumptions that an AWS or a Google or a Microsoft had, if you could sort of think about, instead of serving Ashburn, Virginia, or one particular region, if the region that you served was the Earth, and if you could take everything that we've learned

from powering 20% plus of the internet and make it available.

Like, I think that's what we're doing at Cloudflare.

And I think our audience is really, how do we make the internet better?

Our mission is to help build a better internet.

And the reason, you know, I'm still so excited to come to work every day is I think that's a really important mission.

I can't think of anything more important I could be working on.

And especially right now when so much is changing about the internet, you know, I really love the fact that we have a seat at the table trying to figure out how do we make sure that works for everyone.

Yeah, what's it like to be on the wall?

Yeah, it's like, yeah, I've served this many days, right?

My watch is done.

My watch is done.

Yeah, your watch is not over.

My watch isn't anywhere close to over.

I mean, it's pretty amazing to see, you know, the things that we have to deal with.

And again, like I would never imagined these things when, you know, in February or in February 2023,

Or 2023, when the Ukraine war broke out, like we had provided our services at no cost to Ukraine.

And all of a sudden, the entire Russian government was trying to figure out how to take us down in one way or another.

They weren't successful.