Although Bret Taylor is only 43 years old this year, he already has a famous record in Silicon Valley. When he worked at Google, he assisted Google in establishing the Google Maps service, served as chief technology officer at Facebook, and also led key acquisitions at Twitter and Salesforce.
Who is Bret Taylor?
Although Bret Taylor is only 43 years old this year, he already has a famous record in Silicon Valley. he is Google work, assistGoogle Founding Google Maps service and in Facebook Served as technical chief and also Twitter, Salesforce has led key acquisitions.
He joined after graduating from Stanford University Google, in addition to assisting Google Founding Google In addition to the Maps service, I also began to accumulate key technical and business contacts there. Then Bret Taylor founded FriendFeed to provide new social media services. The most critical technology was the "like" function. The company was banned in 2009. Facebook Acquire and join Facebook.
On Facebook Bret Taylor assumed the position of CTO, accumulated professional experience as a manager, worked closely with Mark Zukerburg and Sheryl Sandberg, and even participated in mergers and acquisitions Instagram 2012 billion in 10美元acquisition case.
Bret Taylor left in 2012 Facebook, founded the online document editing service Quip and became Google Competitors to Docs. Quip was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. same year,Twitter Announced the appointment of Bret Taylor to its Board of Directors.
Bret Taylor served as chief operating officer at Salesforce and climbed all the way to the position of co-CEO, working with Marc Benioff to build the company into a software platform for sales, account management, marketing and data analysis. Among them, Bret Taylor has done a lot of work in expanding the Salesforce product line and taking stock of future strategies, including leading 277 billion美元 Slack and the $150 billion acquisition of Tableau.
in the famous Twitter In the acquisition case, Bret Taylor was the one who facilitated Elon Musk's purchase Twitter Under his leadership, Elon Musk repeatedly changed his purchases during that period Twitter decision, the company filed a lawsuit to force Elon Musk to enforce the contract.
Compared with Elon Musk's crazy statements, Bret Taylor has actually always shown a calm and cautious public image, and is able to seek the best interests of the company from the perspective of the board of directors, rather than focusing on personal limelight. From manager experience, board roles, and even technical background and Silicon Valley connections, Bret Taylor basically has all the important job skills and gradually accumulates leadership skills through these important experiences.
Bret Taylor’s path to AI innovation
After leaving Salesforce, Bret Taylor also started his own AI innovation path, working with his former Google Clay Bavor, vice president of the laboratory, founded the AI company together. According to The Information, the company has raised at least US$2,000 million in funding and is valued at more than US$1 million.
He also publicly expressed his views on AI technology. He said: "You rarely encounter such a powerful new technology, and I feel that it will inevitably change the process of every industry." He compared AI with Apple's iPhone and the Internet. The invention of the road browser was compared. "I feel the same excitement and inevitability about AI, especially given recent advances in large language models."
Therefore, Bret Taylor became the new chairman of the OpenAI board of directors, perhaps because of his complete past experience and his ability to provide an influential role when OpenAI needs to coordinate the board's position with the future direction of the company's development.
Between May and November 2023, OpenAI's valuation has almost tripled, from US$5 billion to US$11 billion, and the development of the LLM model has also become a capital relocation competition for large technology giants. OpenAI is also faced with the choice of rapid development or sticking to safe AI on the development route, and there is also a debate between profit-oriented or human welfare routes.
It remains to be seen what kind of change Bret Taylor will bring to the board at such a critical moment.
:Mia
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