Cloudflare vs Walmart: Founders, CEOs and History

Cloudflare

Founded

2009

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Current CEO

Matthew Prince

Employees

5,156

Walmart

Founded

1962

Headquarters

Bentonville, Arkansas

Current CEO

John Furner

Employees

2,100,000

Cloudflare

• Matthew Prince

  Matthew Prince is Cloudflare's co-founder, CEO, and board chair. In 2004 he and Lee Holloway built Project Honey Pot, which let website owners track spammers harvesting email addresses but could not stop them.

• Michelle Zatlyn

  Michelle Zatlyn is Cloudflare's co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer, and a member of its board. She met Matthew Prince at Harvard Business School, where the two developed the business plan that became Cloudflare in 2009.

• Lee Holloway

  Lee Holloway co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 and was its first lead engineer and systems architect. He had earlier built Project Honey Pot with Matthew Prince starting in 2004, and he designed much of Cloudflare's early software infrastructure.

Walmart

• Sam Walton

  Sam Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and built the company around low prices, low costs, and its own distribution network. He served as CEO until 1988 and remained chairman until his death in 1992.

Cloudflare

1. Matthew Prince2009–present

   Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chair

   Co-founded Cloudflare in 2009, led it through its September 2019 NYSE IPO, and has grown annual revenue past $2 billion (2025) while expanding from web security into Zero Trust, developer, and AI services.

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2. Michelle Zatlyn2009–present

   Co-Founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer

   Co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway and, as President and COO, has led operations and company-building as Cloudflare scaled to more than 5,000 employees.

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3. Thomas Seifert2017–present

   Chief Financial Officer

   As CFO, he consistently delivered high revenue growth while carefully controlling capital expenditures, allowing Cloudflare to heavily invest in its serverless Edge computing network.

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Walmart

1. Sam Walton1962–1988

   Founder and CEO

   Founded Walmart and set its low-price, low-cost operating approach.

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2. Doug McMillon2014–2026

   Former President and CEO

   Led Walmart's push into ecommerce, marketplace, advertising, and store-fulfilled delivery, and oversaw the Jet.com, Flipkart, and VIZIO deals.

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3. Greg Penner2015–present

   Chairman of the Board

   He successfully managed the transition of corporate leadership to Doug McMillon and actively oversees the Walton family's controlling stake in the retail giant.

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4. John David Rainey2022–present

   Executive Vice President and CFO

   As CFO, he aggressively executed multi-billion-dollar share repurchases while funding massive capital expenditures for store remodels and automation.

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5. John Furner2026–present

   President and CEO

   Became President and CEO on February 1, 2026, succeeding Doug McMillon. He reshaped the executive team with internal promotions in January 2026.

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6. David Guggina2026–present

   President and CEO, Walmart U.S.

   As head of supply chain operations, he modernized the underlying logistics network that allowed Walmart to successfully compete with Amazon's two-day delivery speeds.

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Cloudflare

• Human Native2026Undisclosed
• Astro Technology Company2026Undisclosed
• VoidZero2026Undisclosed
• Replicate2025Undisclosed
• Nefeli Networks2024Undisclosed
• Baselime2024Undisclosed

Walmart

• VIZIO2024$2.3B
• Flipkart2018$16B
• Jet.com2016$3.3B