Home Technology Cloud Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn: ‘Middle East internet usage up 20%’ The Cloudflare co-founder says internet growth in the Middle East was 20 per cent in the last quarter of 2023, far higher than the global average of 5 per cent by Gareth van Zyl March 6, 2024 Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn Cloudflare, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is a company with a $32bn market capitalisation. It is a well-known global tech giant that specialises in cloud security and content delivery networks, which help to speed up the delivery of web pages in your browser. At LEAP 2024 in Riyadh, one of the interesting attendees at this year’s event is Michelle Zatlyn, who is one of the co-founders of the 14-year-old company. And in this interview, she highlights how Cloudflare now has 18 points of presence in the region. But because Cloudflare is able to gauge the heartbeat of the internet across the globe, she also says that the rate of internet growth in the Middle East was 20 per cent in the last quarter of 2023, far higher than the global average of 5 per cent. Take a listen to our interview with Zatlyn at LEAP 2024. *Correction: Gulf Business previously reported that internet growth was 25 per cent in the Middle East for 2023, but Cloudflare’s research actually states that the growth was 20 per cent for the final quarter of 2023, while global growth during this same period was 5 per cent and not 4 per cent, as previously reported. Tags cloudflare LEAP Leap 2024 podcast You might also like Virtuzone founder: “We’re setting up about 500 companies a month in the UAE” Entrepreneur Mahmoud Bartawi on cooking up a startup success Dubai’s off-plan market a crucial factor to watch, says Firas Al Msaddi ORO24’s Atif Rahman on Dubai’s meteoric ‘875% real estate growth’