I spoke w/ @cloudflare co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince for the latest ep of the Slow Hunch podcast. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on the internet: powering and protecting vast portions of global traffic. I’ve known Matthew since @usv’s investment in Cloudflare’s Series C back in 2013, and it was really fun tracing his slow hunch, right from those early days. We covered: - how he met co-founders Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway - the early experiments and risks that shaped Cloudflare - stories from the company’s pre-IPO days - their decision to make website encryption free - how their infra ended up running 2 of the internet’s 13 root servers - his thoughts on AI (esp the transition from a search-driven internet to an answer-driven one) Hope you enjoy!
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. @dwr and @v on how they launched Farcaster and got their first few users:
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I spoke w/ @dwr and @v for the latest episode of the slow hunch pod We talked about: - The genesis and evolution of farcaster - What they got wrong early on - Why real user growth + sufficient decentralization is the right balance - How crypto enables new interaction primitives - And why Farcaster’s edge isn’t ideology--it’s programmability. Hope you enjoy!
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