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▶ 39:40 · $OPENAI · OpenAI revenue scale unprecedented; labs racing to build self-improving AI researchers
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How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race | Co-founder Bret Taylor

2026-03-09 · 4 company · 7 thematic
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bret taylor

Bret Taylor is the CEO and co-founder of Sierra, an AI agent platform for customer experience. He previously served as co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook, and co-creator of Google Maps. He currently sits on the board of OpenAI.

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“OpenAI's revenue scale is truly unprecedented. There's no way to AB test what you would have needed, you know, preceding it. ... software engineering is both getting the most attention right now because the research labs know to create sel…”
—bret taylor

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