Bret Taylor

Yeah, I mean, he just doesn't have the connections.

He wasn't like a Brett Taylor, if that makes sense.

And I think what Decagon, like Jesse at Decagon did was kind of insane as well.

But they also had all their VC connections to help them

Concrete examples of massive impact that people achieved as an employee.

So Brett Taylor, who's the head of Quip, before he became an entrepreneur, he joined Google after it already had over 1,000 employees.

And there he was able to spearhead the creation of Google Maps, which is used by hundreds of millions of people, including me on my way here today.

Similarly, my co-founder at Asana, Justin Rosenstein, he joined Google at a similar time.

So then I was, I was at, uh, Facebook for about a year, but again, just kinda decided that working for a big company wasn't really my, my calling.

Uh, my, my co-founder, Bret Taylor, actually ended up becoming the CTO though.

Um, and then later on he was actually the C-CEO of Salesforce for a while, and now he has a new, a new startup doing AI.

So he's back in the game.

Not really super great at growing the user base.

[chuckles] So, so we never had like a really huge user base, but we had a small number of like very passionate users and a lot of really interesting ideas, and so they just wanted the team to come, come join, uh, Facebook.

But like I said, you know, my, my co-founder Brett ended up becoming the CTO.

Um, and he completely redesigned the Facebook API.

GM and NGMI and GMI, baby.

[laughs] So this from Brett Taylor says they're announcing the personal agent protocol.

[laughs]

So what we needed, the thing we needed most in the world-

But if you're like, we're definitely going to execute this and we're not going to change our mind every three months, right? you're probably leaving money on the table.

Brett Taylor from Sierra, one of the most successful agent companies in the world, is saying that they only really build three months ahead and you have to be ready every three months to kind of heal a bunch of your darlings because maybe the model gets better, maybe customer requirements change.

And so I think us being both really agile on that front, so constantly bringing the best of the modern technology to our customers in a way that they don't have to keep on top of papers and read about new memory compaction strategies or how to decode MCAPs with massive fan outs across parallel processing in the cloud.

all of these things that they just don't want to think about.

together right now in somewhere beautiful.

Happy eight years together to Brett Taylor and Annika Ross, celebrating our live show tonight.

And Allie Berman, our favorite lawyer for crazy copyrights and tricky trademarks is leaving the law.

She's leaving the law.