Bret Taylor
CEO @ Sierra
CEO of Sierra (AI agents), Chairman of OpenAI. Former Salesforce co-CEO, co-creator of Google Maps.
“The future of careers, coding, agents, and more, covering product design, team leadership, and product strategy and execution.”
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra | Co-Founder & CEO | 2023-present |
| OpenAI | Chairman of the Board | 2023-present |
| Salesforce | Co-CEO & Vice Chair (prev. President & COO) | 2016-2023 |
| Quip (acquired by Salesforce) | Founder & CEO | 2012-2016 |
| Chief Technology Officer | 2009-2012 |
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“Oh, yeah. You just want to spend this whole thing on my failures, but I'm fine with that.”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“Yeah. They use the computer on the desk.”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“And so, you need just a lot of scale to make a return on the investment for a model that deteriorates in value so quickly. So, I think that's going to end up probably no entrepreneur should build a fr...”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“So all those things combined means I think this is actually a step change in how we think about software because it does a job autonomously, which is more self-evident, a productivity driver. It's mea...”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“That ad. That newspaper ad. I don't know if that's true. It's remarkable if that's true.”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“I haven't gone to any new TV shows recently? We just watched Inception with the kids and they loved it and made me appreciate Christopher Nolan and what a cool movie. It's the type of movie when you w...”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it, which I think I attribute to Alan Kay of Xerox PARC. He invented a lot of the core abstractions that we use in computing today. I'm an entrepreneur,...”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“If you want an AI agent to help with customer service, go to sierra.ai. If you want to apply here, sierra.ai/careers where we have offices in San Francisco and New York, Atlanta and London and are hir...”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“Yeah, tryout Sierra. I'm a single issue voter.”
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more