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Michelle Zatlyn is a Canadian entrepreneur who is the co-funder and the Chief Operating Officer of CloudFlare, Inc., a web performance and cyber security company. Before that, she worked for Google and Toshiba. In 2012 she appeared on the list of the Inc. Magazine "Top 15 Women to Watch in Tech" and in 2014, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

https://www.elle.com/culture/tech/news/a28764/elle-women-in-tech/

Education
Mrs Zatlyn started her studies with a bachelor degree in Chemistry with a minor in Business at McGill University. She graduated in 2001 and took some time to start her career and work for companies as Investor Economics and Toshiba. In 2007, she return to university and did a MBA at the Harvard Business School. This is where she met Matthew Price, an other co-funder of CloudFare, and together they started developing the idea of Cloudfare, Inc. as a business school project. They even won the Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition for this idea in 2009.

Career
Between 2001 and 2004, right after graduating with a bachelor degree from McGill University, Mrs Zatlyn became a research analyst and consultant for Investor Economics. After that, she concentrated on helping launching two small start-ups. She held different positions as a marketing position. From 2005 to 2007, she entered Toshiba where she was a Product Manager.

The idea of Cloudfare, Inc. has arose in the mind of the two other co-funders, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, in 2004. Mrs Zatlyn became part of the project when she met Matthew Price at the Harvard Business School later on. Both of them moved directly after their graduation in 2009 to Palo Alto in order to meet Lee Holloway and concretise their project.

In November 2009, they closed Series A financing with investments from Venrock’s Ray Rothrock and Pelion Venture Partners’ Carl Ledbetter.

They quietly launched a private beta version of CloudFlare to members of the Project Honey Pot community in June 2010, to promising results; users cheered that the service not only provided outstanding security, but also increased their sites’ speed and performance by a sizeable margin.

https://www.cloudflare.com/our-story/

After the success of this trial launch, the co-founders officially launched CloudFlare at the September 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

??? 2007???: three months at Google as a General Manager and MBA Intern.