# Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter - Host: [blog.cloudflare.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/blog.cloudflare.com/) - Saved: September 25, 2025 (2025-09-26T00:45:23Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/de6b09150048/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/de6b09150048.json ## What Jamie wrote Many folks haven't heard of Cloudflare but they run a huge amount of Internet infrastructure. I tend to find their product announcements very opinionated towards an overall direction they feel the Internet is or should be going. There annual letter strikes a ton of change. > Today the conditions to bring about that change may be happening. In the last year, something core to the Internet we've all known has changed. It's being driven by AI and it has an opportunity with some care and nurturing to help bring about what we think may be a much better Internet. AI as a wave that will cause a lot of problems, particularly for ad supported media, but open the door for real value to be recognized and built upon. > Imagine a future business model of the Internet that doesn't reward traffic-generating ragebait but instead rewards those content creators that help fill in the holes in our collective metaphorical cheese. That will involve some portion of the subscription fees AI companies collect, and some portion of the revenue from the ads they'll inevitably serve, going back to content creators who most enrich the collective knowledge. I would place under this the lack of micropayment infrastructure and ability which forced everything to attention models as the problem. Freeing ourselves of that surveillance economy would be incredible. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT328: Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/328/), Notable ## Same host - [Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5271fc17f5fd/) (blog.cloudflare.com, November 19, 2025) - [How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/073d387a4885/) (blog.cloudflare.com, February 26, 2026) - [Browser Run: give your agents a browser](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/11494ef4ced7/) (blog.cloudflare.com, April 16, 2026) - [Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1cb113d6520/) (blog.cloudflare.com, April 16, 2026) - [Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e6581a2de63d/) (blog.cloudflare.com, April 21, 2026) ## Saved the same week - [MCP in Practice – O’Reilly](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/751708de9e48/) (oreilly.com, September 25, 2025) - [Locally AI](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ad544373839f/) (locallyai.app, September 25, 2025) - [Does WiFi Make Students Smarter? - Cal Newport](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/942f38fd7739/) (calnewport.com, September 25, 2025) - [LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out | Proton](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/37dfd721bc53/) (proton.me, September 25, 2025) - [Apple previews new immersive films for Apple Vision Pro - Apple](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/08a198b79fd0/) (apple.com, September 25, 2025) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/