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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
The Cloudflare CEO joined ‘The Big Interview’ to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet's potential futures, and his company’s relationship to Trump.
On this episode of The Big Interview, I talked to Prince about publishing, the old internet, and how his ideal version of the future web means that OpenAI just might become the Netflix of content. So I was crying in my beer with a young law-professor guy named Doug Liman, and he's like, “Hey, my brother's starting a B2B”—what we call a SaaS company today, although we didn't at the time, in the insurance industry, which I knew nothing about—“would you be interested? A few months ago your company made major news, especially with people working in media or the creator class, around what you are doing with AI bots and their ability to scrape websites with impunity.
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