Matthew Prince

Career and Cloudflare

A 2015 University of Chicago biography describes a brief start in legal practice, startup work, teaching cyberlaw as an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School, and co-creating Project Honey Pot, a system for tracking how spammers collect email addresses. UChicago biography

Cloudflare's own history says Prince and Lee Holloway built Project Honey Pot, that Prince met Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School, and that the three founded Cloudflare. The company launched publicly in 2010 and went public in 2019; it trades on the New York Stock Exchange as NET. Cloudflare: Our story

Cloudflare sells internet security, network and developer services. For the second quarter of 2026 it reported revenue of $696.1 million, up 36% from a year earlier, a GAAP loss from operations of $205.7 million and non-GAAP operating income of $96.1 million. These are company results, not Prince's personal income. Second-quarter results

The 2026 proxy says that as of March 5, 2026, Prince and Zatlyn together held about 51% of the company's voting power, and it proposed changes to the company's share structure. That figure covers both co-founders at that date; we have not stated a current figure for Prince alone. 2026 proxy

In May 2026, Prince and Zatlyn announced that Cloudflare would cut more than 1,100 jobs worldwide, tying the decision to how the company now uses AI in its own work. Cloudflare announcement

The Park Record and local news

In March 2023, Matthew and Tatiana Prince announced they were buying the Park Record from Ogden Newspapers. The announcement said they planned, over time, to convert the paper to a nonprofit or public benefit corporation. Park Record announcement That was a stated plan; we have not found a record showing the conversion has happened.

In an interview after the purchase, the Princes said they would not pick the stories the paper's journalists write. Park Record interview KPCW's report on the sale noted that the Park Record had not reported on the 2023 legislative effort connected to Prince's home (below) until after the Legislature voted. KPCW

In December 2025 the paper launched the Wasatch Record, a biweekly edition for Wasatch County, under publisher and editor Don Rogers. Wasatch Record launch

At an April 2026 Semafor event, Prince said the Park Record was on track to make more money that year from licensing its content to AI companies than from digital media. That is his statement, not a reported financial result. Semafor

He has argued that AI companies should compensate the people who create content. Business Insider Cloudflare sells tools in that market: on September 30, 2026 it announced a Pay Per Use beta in which AI buyers offer terms for set uses of publishers' content and Cloudflare handles usage records, billing and payments. Pay Per Use announcement

Utah 2034 Olympic roles

In February 2025 the Salt Lake City–Utah organizing committee for the 2034 Winter Games named Prince chair of its Technology and Innovation Committee. Committee announcement

Utah 2034 lists Matthew and Tatiana Prince among the Founding Captains of Podium34, its donor program. Podium34 donors At the program's September 2025 launch, the committee said each of the nine Founding Captains had made a commitment of $20 million or more. Podium34 launch These are announced commitments; the public listing does not show how much has been paid or on what schedule.

Being an adviser and a donor does not by itself give him a role in the committee's purchasing, and we have found no record of a Cloudflare contract with Utah 2034.

The Park City home dispute

Since 2022, the Princes' plans to build a home in Park City have been contested through the city's planning and historic-design review, administrative appeals and lawsuits brought by neighboring property owners. Prince has said the plans meet city requirements; the neighbors dispute that. KPCW

2023 Legislature. KPCW reported that language allowing Prince's home plans appeared in HB 406 and then in a proposed amendment to SB 271, and that Cloudflare had been listed as a client of lobbyist Lincoln Shurtz the same day. The House rejected the amendment 42–30. The exemption did not become law. KPCW

Museum gift claim corrected. A February 2024 KPCW report originally quoted a resident saying the Princes had given money to the Park City Museum, which had written in support of the design. KPCW corrected it: the Princes and the museum's executive director both confirmed the Princes had given the museum no money. KPCW correction

January 15, 2026. The City Council approved a consent agreement 3–1. KPCW The meeting packet describes the proposed terms: affirming the planning approvals, reinstating the historic-design approval with 24 conditions, adding mitigation measures and having the applicant cover specified future city defense costs. It says the agreement would not settle a separate private lawsuit between the neighbors. The packet holds the proposed terms, not the signed agreement. Council packet

September 23, 2026. Third District Judge Richard Mrazik dismissed two pending lawsuits as moot because the consent agreement superseded the land-use decisions they challenged. KPCW reported that a 2025 state law lets city councils settle land-use litigation with a property owner through a consent agreement. A later lawsuit by the neighbors challenging the agreement continues, with a hearing scheduled for December 29. KPCW

The city said it approved the agreement to provide a path toward resolving several lawsuits; the neighbors called the dismissal a procedural setback. KPCW The dismissal was not a ruling on whether the design meets the city code.

Park City Mountain

In an October 13, 2026 interview, Prince said Vail Resorts should sell Park City Mountain to him. He said that if he were able to buy it he would put half a billion dollars into the lifts, snowmaking, dining and other infrastructure, and that the resort could keep accepting the Epic Pass. The Storm interview Vail Resorts owns the resort. The $500 million is his proposed investment, not a sale price, and no sale or offer has been announced. The interview transcript is machine-generated.

Earlier Utah policy work

Unspam, which Prince chairs, developed technology for no-contact email registries and lists a Utah registry site among its registry websites; Prince co-wrote a 2003 law-journal article on such registries. Unspam Minutes of a Utah House committee hearing on February 10, 2006 record him speaking in favor of HB 417, Amendments to Child Protection Registry, on behalf of Unspam Registry Services. Committee minutes

Internet policy

Prince has written that internet infrastructure companies should be cautious about deciding which content stays online. Explaining Cloudflare's 2017 decision to end service to the Daily Stormer, he called it an exception and raised concerns about that power. 2017 post A 2022 Cloudflare post described three cases in which it ended service or blocked access, the Daily Stormer, 8chan and Kiwi Farms, and the company's reasons. 2022 post

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The signed consent agreement and the September court orders; what has been paid under the defense-cost terms; the Park Record's current legal structure; how much of the Podium34 commitment has been paid; and any political contributions. We will update this page as records are checked.