Bret Taylor
19 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2026 by Bret Taylor · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
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Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Bret Taylor: Business Model Transitions Are Harder Than Technology Transitions
“I think the interesting maybe counterintuitive point that I would make is I think business model transitions are harder than technology transitions. I think it was harder for most on-premises software companies to move to ratable subscription revenue. Than it …”
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Taylor: Elon Musk is probably the greatest entrepreneur of our time
“Probably the greatest entrepreneur of our time. I mean you know, he's a company, he's created everything from SpaceX and look at the impact of Starlink, let alone Tesla and X. So you know, had some complicated interactions, but sort of the undisputed leader in…”
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Bret Taylor: 'Vibe coding' term will fade as user-modified software becomes standard
“I actually think the term vibe coding will be like information superhighway where it's a term we don't use in the future because the idea that your software is something that you can change yourself will be something we expect rather than a novel concept.”
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Taylor: AI is in a bubble, but generational companies will emerge
“I think there'll be a period of consolidation. Well, that was always my joke. Your perspective on the dot-com bubble is very different if you went all in on buy.com versus amazon.com. And so you're gonna have some companies go out of business. I think more lik…”
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Jan 28, 2026 bearish
Jan 28, 2026 bearish
Taylor: AI Agents Will Disrupt Outsourced Software Development
“Where you had a dynamic where a company was outsourcing software development to save costs, the cost of the AI agent might be less than the cost of the outsourced I'll say resource even, so it's somewhat a dehumanizing term, but Often the term used in the indu…”
Jan 28, 2026 negative
Bret Taylor: Incumbent Software Advantages Look Like Disadvantages in AI Shift
“It's a disruptive moment in technology because the incumbent software players, their advantages all of a sudden start to look a little bit like disadvantages, and it doesn't mean they won't all pivot, by the way, but it opens the door for, I'll say, AI native …”
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Taylor: Existing AI models are sufficient for most everyday tasks
“And I think it's gonna probably over the next few years amplify, which is for a given task, the models from last year are sufficient. And the new models will be necessary to achieve some semblance of super intelligence or artificial general intelligence, but w…”
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Jan 28, 2026 bullish
Taylor: Society Will Recognize AI's Scientific Impact Within a Year
“I think we will see a set of things like that math conjecture that's proven where society outside of the realm of, like, my social circle starts to acknowledge the impact that AI's gonna have on science, and I think that will, in a good way, change the positiv…”
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Jan 28, 2026
Bret Taylor: Software cost is maintenance, not building
“Most of the cost of software is in maintaining it, not building it. And that's why most people would prefer to buy a solution off the shelf because you want to amortize the cost of maintaining software among thousands of clients and not have everyone bear it.”
Jan 28, 2026 bullish