Matthew Prince

We helped make sure that Ukraine stayed online.

And my reward was I'm now personally sanctioned by the Russian government.

So I don't get to go to Moscow anytime soon.

When right now the conflict is going on in the Middle East with Iran, watching the Iranian hackers who are very sophisticated try and find any possible vulnerability and we can track them as they do that is extraordinary.

And so there are, in any given second,

literally tens of millions of attacks which are hitting our network.

And what we act as is that immune system that helps make sure that you can just put Cloudflare in front of it and not have to think about any of those other challenges.

And I think that's been a big piece of what has really driven our success.

And that's in the sort of cyber threat side.

I think that the thing which I find interesting is that even as we change and bring in things like agents, like that may not seem like a cyber threat, but it's really a threat to the business model of people who are doing content creation and other things.

And so we get pulled into kind of those other conversations as well, because we're sitting in that position.

And again, I think we have a responsibility, not just to ourselves, but not just even to our customers, but to the internet as a whole, because

You know, any given month, six billion people, basically everyone online passes through our network at one point or another.

And when we when we're doing our job right, like you don't you don't see a capture.

You don't have to identify bicycles.

You don't have to do anything.

We just make sure that the white walkers stay out and that the rest of the normal people are able to transact and do so safely.

Yeah.

So big question and at risk of falling back into my old sort of professorial ways.

Let me kind of take that in various bits.