Bret Taylor quit his gas station job after a $400 web gig
Bret Taylor · Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 2, 2024 · at 1:30
Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and former Co-CEO of Salesforce, recounts his early transition into tech while in high school.
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“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 businesses in my hometown.”
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