High confidence
May 7, 2026
Cloudflare
−1,100 More than 1,100 employees globally (about 20% of workforce)
Attribution · verbatim quote
“That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere.”
— Matthew Prince (ceo)
Summary
Cloudflare cut more than 1,100 employees globally as it reorganized around an 'agentic AI era' operating model, saying it needed to architect the company differently because AI had fundamentally changed how work gets done.
Evidence notes
- · First-party source is a public Cloudflare blog post reproducing the joint layoff email from CEO Matthew Prince and President Michelle Zatlyn.
- · The same memo says Cloudflare's AI usage increased by more than 600% in the prior three months and that the company is reimagining every internal process, team, and role across the company.
- · High confidence despite implied strength because the quote comes from first-party layoff communication that directly ties the restructuring to the 'agentic AI era,' rather than a third-party inference.