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Nick Grossman
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Investing at https://usv.com. Student of cities and the internet. Host of the Slow Hunch podcast: https://nickgrossman.xyz
"The job of making sure we are paid the correct amount is a full-time job"

Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on why he does all the band's finances himself:
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on AI's impact on the music industry:
February 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why he thinks we might be in a golden age of content creation:
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Customer zero for everything we do is us"

Another highlight from my conversation with Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Whoever has the lowest cost to serve customers always wins.

How do you bring those costs down? You solve really hard problems on the internet.

Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why web traffic is a bad proxy for value, and why Google might be the reason we got here:
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Matthew Prince recalls one of our first meetings after we invested in Cloudflare’s Series C -- and a comment from Brad that stuck with him:
September 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
- the decision to make encryption free
- how their infra ended up running 2 of the internet’s 13 root servers
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I spoke w/ @cloudflare.social co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince ( @eastdakota.com) 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.
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why we don't have a good solution against prompt injection:
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Link to Ivan Vendrov's original essay: nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyran...
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
nothinghuman.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why products get worse as they scale:
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on how biology, culture, and technology (including the transformer architecture) are all driven by the same emergent process: evolution.
September 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM