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Bret Taylor

Bret Taylor founded FriendFeed (2007), Quip (2012) and Sierra (2023), and previously worked at Google, Salesforce, Facebook and 2 others.

American entrepreneur (born 1980)

3× founder Media & EntertainmentProductivityArtificial Intelligence 2007–2023
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Companies founded by Bret Taylor

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2007
FriendFeedAcquired Co-founder · Media & Entertainment
2012
QuipAcquired Co-founder & CEO · Productivity
2023
SierraPrivate Co-founder & CEO · Artificial Intelligence

Co-founders

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Bill May
Co-founded Quip
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Bret Taylor Clay Bavor
Co-founded Sierra
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Clay Bavor
Co-founded Sierra
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Jim Norris
Co-founded FriendFeed
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Kevin Gibbs
Co-founded Quip
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Paul Buchheit
Co-founded FriendFeed
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Sanjeev Singh
Co-founded FriendFeed
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Simon Enever
Co-founded Quip

Came from

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Where Bret Taylor worked or built before — the roots of the lineage.

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Google Public
Software & IT · USA
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Salesforce Public
Enterprise Software · USA
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Facebook Public
Media & Entertainment · USA
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FriendFeed Acquired
Media & Entertainment · USA
2007
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Quip Acquired
Productivity · USA
2012

Also came from Facebook

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Abhinav Gupta
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Adam D'Angelo
American businessman (born 1984)
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Adeniyi Abiodun
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Alexandre Lebrun
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Amanpreet Singh
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Amjad Masad
Jordanian-American businessman
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Avery Ching
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Charles Gorintin
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Charlie Cheever
American businessman

Also came from Salesforce

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Anshu Sharma
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Evan Reiser
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Frederic Kerrest
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Howie Liu
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Prakash Khot
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Sanjay Jeyakumar
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Todd McKinnon

Also came from Google

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Abraham Bachrach
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Adam Bry
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Adrian Graham
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Aidan N. Gomez
British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1996/97)
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Amit Sangani
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Andrej Karpathy
Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
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Andrew Boni
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Andrew Conrad
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Andrew Ofstad

Also came from FriendFeed

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Ben Darnell