Inside the collapse of the internet economy (and what comes next)

<p>Azeem Azhar sat down with Matthew Prince, co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare. Matthew is a rare operator with the vantage point to answer a simple question: if agents do the reading, who gets paid? </p><p>This conversation is a practical map of how AI “answer engines” upend the web’s traffic-funded model – and what could replace it.</p><p>Chapters: </p><ul><li>(00:46) The currency of the web is dying </li><li>(06:08) Google's inflection point </li><li>(10:08) Why a broken business model might save the internet </li><li>(14:44) The incentivization of ragebait </li><li>(20:38) Content scarcity as a solution </li><li>(24:35) What could a new content business model look like? </li><li>(28:51) The challenge of pricing information </li><li>(29:31) How Cloudflare thinks about the creator economy </li><li>(32:06) Should smaller companies pay less? </li><li>(34:24) Can markets solve this without Congress? </li><li>(39:11) How does the agentic web affect content? </li><li>(43:40) A rare chance to redesign the internet </li></ul><p>Produced by EPIIPLUS1 Ltd and supermix.io </p><p>Production and research: Chantal Smith, Hannah Petrovic, Nathan Warren and Marija Gavrilov.</p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>