Bret Taylor
26 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2025 by Bret Taylor · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Apr 15, 2025 negative
Taylor: Speculatively patenting generated ideas is value destructive
“I think patents make sense if it's protecting something that's an active use that you know, invented, and you're trying to you know, like the standard, you know legal rationale for patents, just generating a bunch of ideas and patenting, it seems Destructive t…”
Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Bret Taylor: Personal AI agents will take a while to become robust
“I think it might be a really hard product to build because when you think about all the different services and people you interact with every day, it's kind of everything. So it's not, it has to generalize a lot to be useful to you. And because of the Personal…”
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Taylor: Superintelligent AI will not accelerate all industries equally
“The progress in that domain isn't necessarily limited by intelligence but by other social artifacts. So as an example, and I'm not an expert in this area, but if you think about the pharmaceutical industry, my understanding is, you know, the, one of the main b…”
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Taylor: Software engineering supply is not close to being solved by AI
“At some point, we will be we will no longer be supply constrained in software, but we're not anywhere close to it right now, and you're taking something that has always been the scarce resource, which is software engineers, and you're making it not scarce, and…”
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Taylor: 80% of acquirers and acquired teams disagree on success metrics
“If you went to most of the, like, larger acquisitions in the Valley, and you, two weeks after it was closed, interviewed the management team of the acquiring company and the acquired company, and you asked them, like, what does success look like two years from…”
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Taylor: Tough M&A talks should happen between term sheet and close
“I think it's right after that. So where people have really committed to the key things, how much value, why are we doing this, the big stuff. And there's usually you know, many, lots of lawyers being paid lots of money to turn those term sheets into, you know …”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Taylor: Technology and finance will probably benefit most from AI
“Two that are, I think, probably going to benefit a lot are technology and finance you know, where you're, You know, if you can make better financial decisions than competitors, you'll generate outsized returns, and that's why over the past, you know, 30 years,…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025
Bret Taylor: Most acquired founders fail to make the necessary identity shift
“What I've observed is it's that identity shift is a prerequisite for most of the other things. It's not simply your ability to handle the politics and bureaucracy of a bigger company or to navigate a new structure. I actually think most founders don't make tha…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025
Taylor: Removing bureaucracy requires top-down leadership because managers lack incentives to cut process
“Often mid-level managers don't get credit for removing process. They often are held accountable for things going wrong and I think it really takes top-down leadership to you know, remove bureaucracy”
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Taylor: Over-applying engineering mindset leads to analysis paralysis in human problems
“And so I would say, I think a lot of things coming with an engineer mindset could really benefit, but I do think that taking that to its like logical extreme can lead to analysis paralysis, can lead to over intellectualizing some things that are fundamentally …”
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Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Taylor: Pre-training a fourth-best foundation model offers highly questionable ROI
“If you're pre-training a foundation model that's the fourth best that's gonna cost you a lot of money, and the return on that investment is, is probably fairly questionable, because why use your fourth best large language model versus a frontier model or an op…”
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Taylor: Software Value Lies in Closed-Loop AI Systems, Not Chat Interfaces
“What I'm excited about in the software industry is not necessarily a large language model with a prompt and a response being
The product of AI, but actually end to end closed loose systems that use large language models as pieces of infrastructure.
And I actua…”
Apr 15, 2025
Taylor: Bureaucracy accumulates when companies add well-intentioned processes after every error
“The root of bureaucracy is often when something goes wrong, companies introduce a process to fix it. And over those, like sequence of 30 years, the layered sum of all of those processes that were all created for good reason with good intentions end up being a …”