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Bret Taylor

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1. “Yeah, it's a very challenging transition for a lot of founders to make. I think there's lots of examples of acquisitions that have been really transformative from a business standpoint. I think YouTube, Instagram being two of the more prominent that have clearly changed the shape of the...”

   2025-04-15 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Shook me and realized I need to pay more attention to this space and open AI specifically than I had been. I think that was the moment where I realized like I clearly have been not paying attention to something significant. And then it was six months later, coincidentally like the month after I left Salesforce, ChatGBD came out and before it became a phenomenon that did so quickly, but I was already plugged into it. And I was from then on, you know, I could not stop thinking about it. But that avocado chair, I don't know why. I think it was a bit of an emotional moment where you saw a computer doing something that wasn't just rule-based, but creative and the idea of a computer doing something, creating something from scratch was, well, it doesn't seem so novel, you know, a few years later, just blew my mind at the time.”

   2025-04-15 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “I had two separate aha moments. One that I don't think I really appreciated how huge it would be, but it kind of reset my expectation, which was the launch of Dali in the summer of 22. Is that right? I might be off by year, but I think summer of 22. And the avocado chair that they generated. And I had been, well, my background is in computer science and pretty technically deep. I hadn't been paying attention to large language models. I just, it didn't follow the progress after the Transformers paper. And I saw that and my reaction was I had no idea computers could do that. And that particular launch, you know, seeing a generated image of an avocado chair, I don't think I extrapolated to what we are now. But for me,”

   2025-04-15 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “Technology companies aren't entitled to their future success. AI, I think, will change the landscape of software, and I think it will help some companies, and it will really hurt others. And so when I think about what it means to build a company that's enduring, that is a really, really tall task in my mind right now because it means not only making something that's financially enduring over the next 10 years, but setting up a culture where a company can actually evolve to meet the changing demands of society and technology when it's changing at a pace that is like unprecedented in history. So I think it's one of the most fun business challenges of all time. I just get so much energy because it's incredibly hard and it's harder now than it's ever been to do something that lasts beyond you. But that I think is the ultimate measure of a company.”

   2025-04-15 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source