By Om Malik I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he launched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt. His original pitch for Cloudflare was “Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the masses” that would take a few minutes to set up. Others like Akamai offered similar services, but for big-budget customers. Cloudflare was going after a burgeoning ecosystem of apps and relatively young services. That simple elevator pitch hid the real “why” of Cloudflare nicely—in the future, Prince and his co-founder...