Bret Taylor
26 statements across 6 episodes · 15 bullish · 4 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 4, 2024 by Zico Kolter · said 119 times in 33 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (57), Jason Lemkin (11), Cliff Weitzman (11), Reggie Marable (8), Clay Bavor (7), Rory O'Driscoll (4), Zico Kolter (2), Everett Randle (2)
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2026 59 mentions in 11 episodes 5 per episode
- Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 53 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- 20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI
- OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Bret Taylor, oldest first
Sep 4, 2024
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Taylor: AI will yield a trillion-dollar consumer giant and 10+ public companies
“We will look back and laugh at some of the excess, but I'm confident we will have, you know, a brand defining and likely trillion dollar consumer company come out of this. 10 plus enterprise software companies that are enduring, you know, public companies comi…”
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Oct 2, 2024 positive
Oct 2, 2024 positive
Bret Taylor: Iterative deployment is the most responsible path to AGI
“I believe the most responsible way to develop AGI is responsible iterative deployment. And the reason for that is I believe that as you're thinking about things like the societal impact access to this technology and the safety side of AGI as well, that the, Be…”
Oct 2, 2024
Bret Taylor quit his gas station job after a $400 web gig
“I was getting paid four dollars and 25 cents at the gas station an hour, which was minimum wage at the time. And ended up getting paid 400 dollars for the website. So I quit the gas station job the next day and ended up making websites for a lot of local busin…”
Oct 2, 2024 bearish
Oct 2, 2024 negative
Taylor: Most companies should avoid model pre-training and align costs with usage
“Most companies should be applying AI to build solutions and most companies should have relatively modest training costs and most of their costs should be correlated with inference, which should be correlated with revenue and usage of your product.”
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Taylor: Conversational AI will replace web and app clicks within five years
“And as a consequence, you know, I think that, you know, if you fast forward four or five years, when you're interacting with any of the consumer brands, you work with your insurance company, your phone company a car rental company, you will probably be having …”
Oct 2, 2024 positive
Oct 2, 2024 bearish
Oct 2, 2024 positive
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Bret Taylor: Conversational AI will become the dominant computer interface
“And my thesis is just like touch screens have come to dominate Our experience with computers because of convenience, you can have a conversation in so many different places. You don't need an instruction manual. I think it will be the main way we work with com…”
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Taylor: AI progress won't stall because data, compute, and algorithms alternate bottlenecks
“In any one of those, you could probably make a very rational intellectual case that we're gonna hit a wall, but then you have the two others. And I don't think you can make the case for all three that they're all coming up on a wall. And I think like any big s…”
Oct 2, 2024 positive
Oct 2, 2024 neutral
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Bret Taylor: Companies needing standard models should simply fine-tune Llama or Mistral
“You know, I think that in that market probably if you need a model like that, you should download llama. That's the answer. It's like, you don't need much of a cheat sheet on that, you know, and or maybe Mr. All, but pick one of the open source models that are…”
Oct 2, 2024 negative
May 2, 2025 positive
Oct 30, 2025 positive
O'Driscoll: Bret Taylor Forced Elon Musk to Complete $44B Twitter Acquisition
“For the second time in the last five years, he totally wanted as board chairman of Twitter, where he jammed that down Elon's throat for forty four billion dollars despite his opposition, and he won here today because he unraveled the mess and set it all up for…”
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Jul 4, 2026
Jul 4, 2026 positive
Sierra founders personally monitored every AI customer conversation during Black Friday
“When we, in our first Black Friday, Cyber Monday with a set of retailers, one of one of our lead engineers, our head of operations, me or Brett, was in real time personally reading every single conversation that our agents were having, because we wanted to mak…”
Jul 4, 2026
Jul 4, 2026 neutral
Clay Bavor details recent operational debate with Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor
“I was on one side. It was like, I think we need better kind of process and structure around this thing. Brett was on the side of people and maybe we need different leaders or a different leader in this space. The answer is with most things like turned out to b…”