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Matthew Prince đĨ
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Matthew Prince đĨ
@eastdakota
A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
- At what size company do you think you stop getting these spam messages? Like do you think Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg still get them?
- We just blocked Kiwifarms. The threats on the site escalated enough in the last 48 hours that, in spite of proactively working with law enforcement, it became enough of an imminent emergency we could no longer wait for them to act. Details of our decision:
- Some supposedly âreputableâ AI companies act more like North Korean hackers. Time to name, shame, and hard block them.Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. cfl.re/4l7RV9b
- Not all records youâre happy about breaking: @Cloudflare recently mitigated the largest ever reported hyper-volumetric #DDoS attack. 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Bpps). Handled automatically any without any customer impact. Details to come.
- Thereâs a lot of buzz right now about a âmassive DDoS attackâ targeting the US, complete with scary-looking graphs (see Tweet below). While it makes for a good headline in these already dramatic times, itâs not accurate. The reality is far more boring. 1/XThis DDoS attack is serious. It has taken down Instagram, Facebook, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Twitch.... 2020 is something else.
- Honestly: across the board, Portugal has gotten significantly WORSE since we started making investments in the country. If the trend continues, weâll stop investing. And if youâre considering it as a tech firm, youâd be crazy to without some hard reassurances from the government.
- Iâm playing everyoneâs favorite party game: guess the Trump administrationâs strategy. Like most of you, I have no inside information. But thatâs what makes it fun. Hereâs my best theory. Some assumptions first: 1) Theyâre not crazy. There is a strategy. It doesnât align with
- I know this story. Itâs very bad. Donât know if David is most evil person in SV. Lots of competition. But can say: we overlapped a year in law school and even way back then he had a reputation for being a complete asshole. And that was at @UChicagoLaw, which is full of assholes.@DavidSacks-āĻā§ āĻāĻ¤ā§āĻ¤āĻ° āĻĻā§āĻā§āĻž āĻšāĻā§āĻā§Do you really want the full story of what you did to Parker to be told publicly? Because it's the worst case of an investor maltreating a founder that I've ever heard, and I've heard practically all of them.
- One of the smartest decisions we made at @Cloudflare was recognizing that the primary purpose of our blog was attracting employees, not attracting customers.
- Iâm told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goesâĻ Contrary to what @kevinroose and others have written, Microsoft was not a winner of the events of the last few days around #OpenAI. They were in a much better place on Friday morning last week
- @paulg-āĻā§ āĻāĻ¤ā§āĻ¤āĻ° āĻĻā§āĻā§āĻž āĻšāĻā§āĻā§Oh Paul, you know better. I had to borrow money from my mom to pay my taxes when we were starting Cloudflare. But I certainly came from a relatively privileged background, and so did the AirBnB founders. Itâs hard to take risks if you donât have a safety net. #bereal
- Twitter traffic tanking. radar.cloudflare.com/domains
