1. Bret Taylor is most notable for leading the team that co-created Google Maps and his tenures as the CTO of Facebook, as the chairman of Twitter, Inc.
18 Facts About Bret Taylor
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Bret Taylor was born in Oakland, California, in 1980, primarily growing up in the East Bay.
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Bret Taylor graduated from Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California, in 1998.
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Bret Taylor attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degree in computer science in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
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In 2003, Bret Taylor was hired by Google as an associate product manager.
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Bret Taylor left Google in June 2007 to join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence, where he and several other former Google employees founded the social network web site FriendFeed.
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Bret Taylor was CEO of FriendFeed until August 2009, when the company was acquired by Facebook for an estimated $50 million.
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In 2012, Bret Taylor left Facebook to found Quip, a competitor to Google Docs.
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That year, Twitter, Inc announced that Bret Taylor was appointed to their board of directors.
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Bret Taylor remained in the position until the entire board of directors was dissolved following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in October 2022.
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In 2017, Bret Taylor was named chief product officer at Salesforce.
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Bret Taylor was named president and chief operating officer at Salesforce two years later.
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Bret Taylor led the creation of a system dubbed Customer 360 at Salesforce and started an associate product manager program at the company.
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In November 2021, Bret Taylor was named vice chair and co-CEO at Salesforce.
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On November 30,2022, it was announced that Bret Taylor would be stepping down as co-CEO and vice chair at Salesforce at the end of January 2023.
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In November 2023, Bret Taylor replaced Greg Brockman as the chairman of OpenAI when Sam Altman was briefly ousted and reinstated as CEO of the company by its board members.
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Bret Taylor serves on the board of Shopify since 2023.
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Bret Taylor married Karen Padham in 2006, whom he met while working at Google.