15 Facts About Matthew Prince

Matthew Browning Prince was born on November 13,1974 and is an American business executive.

Matthew Prince is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare.

Matthew Prince began teaching at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law when the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 passed, inspiring him to found Unspam and Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software.

Matthew Prince was born on November 13,1974, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City.

Matthew Prince's father, John Browning Prince, 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.

When he was seven, Matthew Prince received an Apple II Plus for Christmas.

In 1996, Matthew Prince graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature and minoring in computer science.

Matthew Prince then was 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.

In 2003, Matthew Prince began teaching cyberlaw at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Matthew Prince is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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.