Matthew Prince | |
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Born | Matthew Browning Prince November 13, 1974 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
Citizenship | American |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Co-founder, executive chairman, and CEO, Cloudflare |
Spouse | Tatiana Lingos-Webb |
Relatives | John Browning (great-great grandfather) |
Matthew Browning Prince[1] (born November 13, 1974)[2] is an American business executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of March 2023,[update] Prince is the second wealthiest person in Utah behind Gail Miller.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City, Prince expressed an interest in computer science from an early age and graduated from Trinity College in 1996, the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and Harvard Business School in 2009. 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. In 2009, he created Cloudflare with Harvard Business School alumnus Michelle Zatlyn and Project Honey Pot co-founder Lee Holloway.