Bret Taylor

@btaylor163k followers

Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI.

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1	Jul 27, '21	Also how I prepare for my first Zoom meeting of the morning	151×	0	44k	12k	1.3k
2	Jul 8, '22	The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are	97.8×	0	24k	3.7k	542
3	Apr 25, '22	The Twitter Board has reached an agreement with @ElonMusk	64.6×	0	19k	3.2k	387
4	Jan 15, '19	David Bowie in 1999 about the impact of the Internet on society	52.7×	0	13k	4.7k	530
5	Nov 16, '19	A masterclass in marketing from one of the greatest ever, Steve Jobs. Marketing is about values.	51.6×	0	12k	3.3k	2.6k
6	Nov 30, '23	Today as Board Chair I sent the attached letter on behalf of the Board to the OpenAI community. I am excited to be working with my board colleagues Adam and Larry, the OpenAI Leade	31.6×	992k	1.4k	99	199
7	Feb 23, '19	Here’s a silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”	27.2×	0	6.2k	2.4k	461
8	Nov 22, '23	❤️	24×	755k	2k	48	39
9	Mar 3, '18	My first job was at a gas station, where I cleaned bathrooms and pumped gas. I earned $4.25/hr, and my shirt said “Brent” instead of “Bret.” Owner was too cheap to correct it. Clea	23×	0	7.5k	1.6k	30
10	Nov 22, '17	I seriously want an Alexa option that makes her only respond if you say “please.” Hearing our kids talk to her makes me cringe — undoing everything we ever taught them how to be po	17.1×	0	5.1k	1.2k	0
11	Oct 28, '25	Excited to welcome Fox Corp, Next, DirecTV, Tubi, Wayfair, Brex, Bumble, Cigna, Sutter Health, Rivian, Chime, Ramp, BISSELL, SiriusXM, Safelite, CLEAR, Rocket, VF, AG1, Archipelago	16.4×	515k	438	10	105
12	Dec 24, '24	The role of a software engineer is transforming from being the author of computer code to being the operator of a code generating machine. What is a computer programming system bui	10.5×	331k	1k	122	931
13	Feb 23, '19	It turns out, when you write the code, you have a fair amount of power. 😏 We pocket vetoed the decision and launched with “Satellite.” And literally no exec noticed or remembered	10.2×	0	4k	292	32
14	Jul 12, '22	Twitter has filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery to hold Elon Musk accountable to his contractual obligations.	9.3×	0	2.7k	315	53
15	Aug 4, '22	Twitter filed a response to Mr. Musk’s counterclaims. His claims are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant. We look forward to the trial in the De	8.5×	0	1.8k	284	112
16	Nov 9, '16	Next four years will be ultimate test of whether our institutions are more powerful than the men who occupy them, as the founders intended.	8.5×	0	1.9k	1k	1
17	Sep 24, '19	Preach. You people who don’t use Oxford commas are just wrong.	8.1×	0	2.2k	464	149
18	Oct 29, '19	Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler	6.8×	0	2.2k	441	69
19	Jun 24, '16	The best feeling in software is when you are so obsessed with an idea that all you can think about is getting back to a keyboard to build it	6.6×	0	1.9k	523	31
20	Feb 28, '19	Netflix auto-playing previews while you browse stresses me out beyond belief	5.7×	0	2.1k	182	4
21	Oct 11, '20	Like most Californians, checking PurpleAir is part of my morning ritual given all the air quality issues we’ve been having. I really wanted a PurpleAir map widget on my home screen	5.6×	0	1.9k	200	117
22	Jun 16, '17	The day Amazon becomes a direct competitor to your company.	5.6×	0	1k	760	0
23	Oct 31, '21	When I was a kid, I swore I would be the house that passes out full sized candy bars. We are in fact that house now, and it has been every bit as awesome as I hoped it would be. 🍫	5.5×	0	2.4k	41	14
24	Feb 13, '24	I'm excited to announce @ClayBavor and my new company, @SierraPlatform, the conversational AI platform for businesses. With Sierra, every company can elevate their customer experie	5.1×	161k	461	32	92
25	Nov 29, '21	Congratulations to @paraga on being named $TWTR’s CEO, and thank you to @jack for your leadership over the past six years. I’m honored to be the next Chair of @Twitter’s board. Tod	4.7×	0	1.9k	100	16
26	Aug 18, '21	What is a technology prediction in which you had strong conviction that turned out to be wrong?	4.4×	0	763	81	186
27	Nov 22, '17	Proud to take on an expanded role at @Salesforce as President and Chief Product Officer. Looking forward to years of fun and innovation with my friend, mentor, and boss @Benioff.	4.4×	0	1.7k	113	0
28	Sep 19, '19	How Eratosthenes inferred the earth was a sphere and accurately calculated its circumference only with shadows and pacing, as described by Carl Sagan. Amazing ingenuity and vision.	4.3×	0	1k	315	141
29	Oct 2, '15	Nihilistic password security questions -	3.9×	0	581	656	0
30	May 8, '25	Sam and I are so excited to welcome Fidji as CEO of Applications at OpenAI. Fidji is one of the most remarkable leaders I have ever had the privilege of working with, and I have pe	3.8×	120k	447	14	51
31	Nov 30, '21	Thank you, Marc. I cherish our friendship and partnership, and I am honored to lead @Salesforce with you as Co-CEO. Thank you to our Trailblazers and all of our stakeholders for th	3.8×	0	1.5k	61	13
32	Jul 5, '16	Excited to join @twitter's board. Twitter is one of the most important services in the world, and I'm thrilled to be able to work with @jack	3.8×	0	1.1k	249	0
33	Nov 9, '24	@zack_overflow At one point Google Maps had a fully functional XSL transform engine written in JavaScript to translate XML from the server to the content you saw on the screen. It	3.6×	113k	1.4k	50	170
34	Dec 24, '24	If a computer is generating most code, how do we make it easy for a software engineer to verify it does what they intend? What is the role of programming language design (e.g., wha	3.6×	113k	436	38	321
35	Jan 22, '22	I love my Peloton bike and treadmill so much. Peloton has made me healthier and happier well before the pandemic and will continue well after, and the company created a new standar	3.5×	0	1.5k	39	17
36	Oct 9, '18	Is there a good explainer article about why there has been a surge in spam phone calls over the past year? Every single person I know is experiencing this, and it is super annoying	3.5×	0	1.2k	137	21
37	May 17, '19	“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” - Fred Brooks	3.2×	0	985	224	26
38	Aug 19, '25	Simulations are a new kind of testing for a new kind of software, simulating conversations between AI agents and mock personas ensure reliability at scale	2.9×	90k	671	60	741
39	Jun 19, '19	“If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole.” — Raylan Givens, Justified	2.8×	0	903	161	47
40	May 6, '21	Dad press conference	2.6×	0	799	127	49
41	Dec 19, '21	8500+ @Salesforce employees are rocking out to Maroon 5 at the Giants stadium tonight. So great to reconnect safely in person (powered by Dreampass and our Safety Cloud) and celebr	2.4×	0	880	48	7
42	Dec 22, '20	I’ve read a lot on Twitter about tech leaders leaving the Bay Area. COVID-19 has unlocked opportunity for technology to be built from anywhere. I think that’s a good thing: more ta	2.3×	0	892	45	21
43	Dec 23, '20	Congratulations to ⁦@Benioff⁩ on being named CNN Business CEO of 2020	2.2×	0	858	91	4
44	May 13, '22	We are too. We remain committed to our agreement.	2.2×	0	748	45	20
45	Jun 13, '21	54 years ago, my marriage would have been illegal in 17 states. Thank you to Richard and Mildred Loving for having the courage to bring their case to the Supreme Court, righting a	2.2×	0	956	47	6
46	Nov 29, '21	I wonder what percentage of tweets directed towards @paraga today are about an edit button?	2.2×	0	888	41	2
47	Apr 26, '22	My shoe game is 🔥 for TrailblazerDX tomorrow thanks to @TheChrisDuarte. Don’t be jealous @Benioff #TDX22	2.2×	0	878	24	4
48	Mar 10, '22	What an incredible company and community @Benioff and @parkerharris built 23 years ago. Grateful to be a part of the @Salesforce family!	2.1×	0	905	55	2
49	Aug 20, '19	This is a next level belly flop contest	2.1×	0	576	132	27
50	Oct 5, '18	This is a wonderful article about @stripe and the amazing founders @patrickc and @collision. One of the most ambitious and impressive companies I have ever encountered — and one th	2.1×	0	575	133	75
51	Dec 3, '20	View post on X	2.1×	0	802	38	6
52	Aug 25, '21	Salesforce Growth: 2022 $26.3B (guidance) 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to all our stakeholders!	2.0×	0	799	58	11
53	May 16, '18	Planet or Plastic?	2.0×	0	422	246	2
54	Dec 22, '20	I was born in Oakland, and I’m excited to stay in the Bay Area — to create local jobs and help solve all of the problems we face as a community, in partnership with non-profits and	2.0×	0	828	29	3
55	May 15, '21	If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole.	1.9×	0	773	45	13
56	Apr 2, '20	Wow: @zoom_us grew from 10M DAU in December to 200M in March. 20X growth in three months is absolutely insane.	1.8×	0	557	112	18
57	Dec 15, '21	Rapid testing is the way we can continue to reopen and reconnect safely in the face of variants like Omicron. I think the most effective economic stimulus would be free rapid testi	1.8×	0	689	64	4
58	Jul 21, '21	Salesforce has completed its acquisition of @SlackHQ! Together, we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver c	1.8×	0	608	98	6
59	Feb 6, '20	Happy birthday, Google Maps!	1.7×	0	733	36	0
60	Sep 19, '18	Say hello to Einstein Voice. Now anyone can talk to @Salesforce. This product is going to blow your mind! 🤯 #DF18	1.7×	0	436	135	14
61	Nov 30, '21	Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31.8B (guidance) 2022 $26.4B (guidance) 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to our Trail	1.7×	0	674	51	8
62	May 18, '18	2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members of the US military. How bad does it have to get before we find the resolve to protect our children?	1.6×	0	349	201	1
63	Jun 18, '20	“Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past.” — Richard Hamming	1.6×	0	527	106	17
64	Feb 28, '19	I am speaking to you from the future!	1.6×	0	577	63	10
65	Feb 23, '19	Being the product pragmatist I am, I thought, who cares? “Aerial Photography” doesn’t fit on a button, and every person in our usability study got what “Satellite” meant. Unfortuna	1.6×	0	676	29	3
66	Sep 26, '17	This number is staggering, especially b/c there are only about 7,000 undergrads at Stanford. Machine learning will transform all industries!	1.5×	0	355	166	0
67	Mar 20, '18	The top two stories in both WSJ and NY Times are about Facebook data being used improperly to manipulate elections and a self-driving Uber killing a pedestrian. So much nuance to t	1.5×	0	441	110	2
68	Aug 1, '16	Thrilled to be joining @Benioff and the @Salesforce team!	1.5×	0	375	115	0
69	Aug 4, '18	Hard truth: @Salesforce Idea Exchange is pretty broken right now, and we aren’t living up to our promise of true community engagement in our product roadmap. Good news: We have a p	1.5×	0	394	120	3
70	Dec 15, '19	View post on X	1.5×	0	505	86	3
71	May 11, '19	We are the only Warriors fans in this place and very happy	1.5×	0	619	20	2
72	May 4, '20	Introducing the platform — tools to help every community and company reopen safely 💻 Workplace Command Center 🤝 Contact Tracing 🏥 Emergency Response 🤒 Employee Wellness 🗓 Shif	1.4×	0	396	130	12
73	Nov 25, '21	The fact we don’t have access to cheap, rapid COVID tests in the US is the greatest public policy failure of the pandemic. Rapid testing is the best way to reconnect safely, we can	1.4×	0	391	71	16
74	Apr 5, '22	Welcome to the Twitter board, @elonmusk! We are all excited to work with you and build the future of Twitter together	1.4×	0	494	39	6
75	Apr 27, '21	A culture of refactoring is vital for successfully maintaining large codebases. The more code changes, the easier it is to change. Once code stops changing, it becomes virtually im	1.4×	0	471	71	22
76	Feb 23, '19	I think it was Sergey who spoke last. “Let’s call it Bird Mode.” Bzzzzzzzz. I start to speak and am cut off — meeting over. I look around, and it’s clearly evident the feature has	1.4×	0	580	29	3
77	Jul 12, '18	@jack I haven’t lost any yet and now I feel offended the robots didn’t like me enough to follow me	1.4×	0	518	57	1
78	Feb 3, '17	This one paragraph blog post was the only marketing we did for the Google Maps launch. Amazing relative to today's launch events.	1.3×	0	377	114	1
79	Aug 24, '22	Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31B (guidance) 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to all of our stakeholder	1.3×	0	448	53	10
80	Feb 10, '21	Without question, this is the best video of the pandemic. It is literally perfect.	1.3×	0	467	38	13
81	Sep 20, '21	Excited to welcome 1000 Trailblazers in person tomorrow and millions on Salesforce+ for tomorrow’s Dreamforce keynote! Register to watch online at #DF21	1.3×	0	498	41	2
82	Feb 18, '19	At my first startup, FriendFeed (2007), we built our own servers. At my second, Quip (2013), we built on AWS, and a lean SRE team scaled the service. If I were to start another com	1.2×	0	368	55	32
83	Mar 9, '20	Thank you to IT and devops professionals everywhere — keeping the cloud up and running in this new era of widespread remote work. 🙏🏻	1.2×	0	474	52	2
84	Mar 3, '21	@Austen Just DMed you my mobile. Can get it fixed immediately	1.2×	0	541	5	6
85	Sep 20, '22	Who’s ready to go for the Dreamforce keynote! ⁦@Benioff⁩	1.2×	0	493	30	0
86	Nov 23, '18	Someone said they liked the canned cranberry better than homemade, and let’s just say the chef chose a slightly passive aggressive presentation. 😂	1.2×	0	485	29	1
87	Feb 10, '22	Welcome to Trailblazer Ranch!	1.2×	0	388	58	6
88	Jul 6, '18	It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who i	1.2×	0	359	86	7
89	Apr 29, '21	The law of AirPods: When you buy a replacement for lost AirPods, you immediately find your lost AirPods	1.1×	0	491	10	3
90	May 6, '20	Thank you, @NewYorker, for capturing my reality so perfectly	1.1×	0	404	49	4
91	Feb 23, '19	I could not resolve the disagreement before our launch review, so we come into the meeting room with an unnamed feature. As you might expect, the meeting devolved from a “launch re	1.1×	0	490	12	2
92	Jan 28, '18	TFW you realize @elonmusk can get more people to buy actual flamethrowers in one evening than you can get people to download a mobile app. There are different levels of entrepreneu	1.1×	0	427	42	0
93	May 6, '22	Salesforce. #1 CRM.	1.0×	0	375	41	4
94	Mar 15, '22	Who says we are divided as a country? The Sunshine Protection Act, which makes Daylight Savings Time permanent just passed the Senate unanimously. On behalf of everyone with small	1.0×	0	416	19	2
95	Jul 31, '21	The sign you have transitioned from being young to being old: When you discover an item of clothing you like, you immediately stock multiple copies (in case they have the audacity	1.0×	0	405	11	7
96	Sep 6, '19	Only on Twitter ❤️	1.0×	0	379	38	9
97	Dec 22, '20	Whether it’s homelessness, equality, education — business can be the greatest platform for change to solve the world’s most pressing problems. I hope those people leaving the Bay A	1.0×	0	401	25	5
98	Nov 9, '24	@shinshaaaa @zack_overflow Yes	0.9×	29k	1k	11	14
99	Sep 22, '22	Dreamfest 2022 🔥	0.9×	0	378	18	1
100	Oct 28, '21	The view from the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco never gets old	0.8×	0	377	6	1

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