Sierra

7 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2024 by Bret Taylor · said 37 times in 15 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sarah Guo (14), Elad Gil (11), Bret Taylor (8), Philipp Herzig (1), Harrison Chase (1), Gabe Pereyra (1), Brendan Foody (1)

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Everything said about Sierra, oldest first

Sep 19, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Taylor: Sierra charges based on completed outcomes rather than tokens
“At Sierra, we're really focused on what we call outcome-based pricing, you know, charging for the job done.”
Bret Taylor Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 24:40 No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Insight
Taylor: RAG is woefully insufficient for meaningful enterprise customer service
“What we found in practice is that broad category of technology investment is woefully insufficient for almost any meaningful customer experience. If you think about, you know, all of the interactions you've had with brands that you care about, what percentage …”
Bret Taylor Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 10:50 No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
Sep 19, 2024
Disclosure
Taylor: Sierra deploys supervisor models to monitor other AI models
“We do a lot of what we call supervisor models, so we have models supervising other models.”
Bret Taylor Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 37:16 No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
Dec 26, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: In 2025, digital presence probably means having branded AI agents
“In 2025, existing digitally will probably mean having a branded AI agent that your customers can interact with to do everything that they can do on your website.”
Bret Taylor Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 7:49 No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024
May 29, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Gil: AI customer success is consolidating around Sierra and Decagon
“In customer success, it seems like things are kind of consolidating against Sierra and Decagon.”
Elad Gil May 29, 2025 ▶ 1:30 No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
Feb 19, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gil: Decagon and Sierra Represent a Shift Toward Utilization-Based Support Agents
“Ultimately, I think Decagon and Sierra are examples of companies where you're moving from proceed software to basically utilization based customer support related agents, right? That is a real shift. That may impact some of the prior wave of sort of perceived …”
Elad Gil Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 2:27 The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Herzig: AI will transition software pricing to consumption, then outcome-based models
“Very clearly with AI, it was very clear for us that, you know, step by step, it will go towards this consumptive world, right? First consumptive, and then maybe in the next step, once we have more verifiability in the system, then also towards maybe an outcome…”
Philipp Herzig Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 34:48 SAP: Bringing the ‘Operating System’ of a Company into the AI Era with CTO Philipp Herzig
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