Matthew B Prince is an American business executive who co-founded the technology company Cloudflare in 2009, of which he is its chief executive officer.
13 Facts About Matthew Prince
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Matthew B Prince was born in 1974 or 1975 and grew up in Park City, Utah, where he worked as an assistant ski instructor.
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Matthew Prince's father is a former journalist, restaurateur, and owned a stock brokerage firm, while his mother owned several gift stores; in high school, Prince worked for his mother.
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When he was seven, Prince received an Apple II Plus for Christmas.
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In 1996, Matthew Prince graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature and minoring computer science.
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Matthew Prince graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000 with a Juris Doctor and from Harvard Business School in 2009 with a Master of Business Administration as a George F Baker Scholar.
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In 2003, Matthew Prince began teaching cyberlaw at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.
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The creation of the National Do Not Call Registry through the CAN-SPAM Act inspired Matthew Prince to create Unspam, a spam-prevention software for email.
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Matthew Prince co-founded Unspam Technologies, which supported the development of Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software created by Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway designed to gather information on IP addresses used by email-address harvesting services.
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Matthew Prince is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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An internal email by Matthew Prince and obtained by Gizmodo said that he felt compelled to act after users of The Daily Stormer began boasting that Cloudflare was "one of them".
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Matthew Prince defended suspending Kiwi Farms' service in September 2022 after the site engaged in a harassment campaign against Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti in August of that year.
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In October 2022, Matthew Prince's representatives had asked Park City planners to tear down a 7,000 square feet main house and guest house Matthew Prince owned on King Road and build a mansion, guest house, pool, and parking garage in their place.