Cloudflare CEO Now a Billionaire on Stay-at-Home Streaming Surge

  • Matthew Prince owns about 12.5% of firm he co-founded in 2009
  • Shares of network routing provider hit record before earnings
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Cloudflare Inc. Chief Executive Officer Matthew Prince became a billionaire Thursday as the stock climbed to a record hours before the company’s scheduled earnings report.

Shares of the San Francisco-based firm advanced 14% to $28.52 at 1 p.m. in New York, giving Prince a net worth of $1.08 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.