Bret Taylor @btaylor

Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI. linkedin.com/in/brettaylor San Francisco, CA Joined July 2007

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Sam Altman @sama

2 days ago

i want the US to win in AI both in open source and proprietary models, and i am glad to see this

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

3 days ago

The best part about this acquisition is I get to build agents with @letsleverup all day - he is truly one of a kind

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

3 days ago

I’m incredibly excited to share that Sierra is acquiring TakeOff, the leader in long-horizon AI agents. @claybavor and I couldn't be more excited to welcome @letsleverup and the entire TakeOff team. In less than a year, they've built something truly special: an agent platform that delivers real business outcomes, is beloved by customers, and is growing incredibly quickly. Their maniacal focus on revenue driving, long-horizon agents has taken them from 0 to near 8 figures in revenue across several 7 figure contracts since the start of this year. As we got to know the team, it became clear we were making the same bet: that fully autonomous agents would perform human-level work at software scale and that the largest businesses in AI would be built around outcomes, not inference. Takeoff has built an exceptional platform and team to make that real, and together we’re excited to build the leading company in long-horizon AI agents. Welcome, Aakash and the Takeoff team. x.com/letsleverup/st…

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

4 days ago

We recently posted about Pinecone, Sierra’s internal agent every employee uses for everything from writing code to GTM. Mihai wrote up how the Pinecone team designed the MCP service behind it, including nuanced issues like access control and context overload. Check it out:

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

5 days ago

@Alfred_Lin This advice is the most impactful change I made in my career by a mile. It takes self-awareness to do well.

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

7 days ago

Sarah @saranormous is one of the most intense, engaged, and operationally excellent investors I have worked with — and every founder I have met who has worked with her feels the same way. Truly one of a kind colossus.com/article/sarah-…

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John Waldmann @J_Waldmann

a week ago

In early 2024, I talked to a lot of experts and the consensus view was “you can reduce support costs by 30% with AI." We asked instead: "How can we create a level of service for small businesses that was impossible before?" Could we create an enterprise-level customer experience for a $50/mo freemium product? We're still building against this goal and @SierraPlatform has been an awesome partner. Thank you @btaylor and the entire team for the support from the beginning. A few learnings below 🧵

Sierra @SierraPlatform

2 weeks ago

AI didn't shrink @joinhomebase's support team... it gave their reps a new career path into AI enablement. Read about it: sierra.ai/customers/home…

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

a week ago

@ashwahi Always a space

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a week ago

I courageously used two hand-written em dashes in this post

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

a week ago

One Sierra engineer put it succinctly: Own the context, rent the intelligence.

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

a week ago

The key insight of Sierra Horizon is your company's moat is the context you have about your customers, and that will compound as more of your customer experience is powered by AI agents. With every agent conversation, the context about your customers gets richer and your agents become more effective. That proprietary context remains yours as frontier intelligence improves, enabling you to deepen your differentiation and benefit from new models without fear that doing so could help your competitors. And with Horizon, you don’t pay for tokens, you pay for business outcomes delivered. We bear the burden of managing token spend, and you can focus on what matters most to your business: growing your customer base and driving revenue. x.com/btaylor/status…

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Greg Brockman @gdb

2 weeks ago

our models are built to provide the best price for any given task. if you're able to get better price/perf on any workload, would love to hear the details and look at it together — [email protected].

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Ana Botín @AnaBotin

2 weeks ago

Working together with @SierraPlatform, we are using AI to do a better job for our 180 million customers by personalising our products and services, while also creating value for our shareholders. Deals are good when they work for both sides, and Brett and the Sierra team get it.

Bret Taylor @btaylor

2 weeks ago

For more than 165 years, Santander has helped people and businesses prosper. Ana Botín has long advocated for AI — not as a technology project, but as a way to increase productivity, drive growth, and deliver better customer experiences. @claybavor and I are incredibly proud

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

2 weeks ago

I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

2 weeks ago

I'm proud to announce our partnership with SoftBank, the leading telecommunications and IT operator in Japan, with decades-long relationships across all the major enterprises there. We share the same competitive intensity and ambition to help companies deliver better outcomes for their customers with AI. I'm excited to also have SoftBank as a customer across its flagship SoftBank and Y!mobile brands, as well as additional services operated by its group companies. sierra.ai/blog/announcin…

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

2 weeks ago

We wrote up how we've AI-pilled Sierra. The centerpiece is an AI agent named Pinecone that the whole company uses for everything from business analysis to writing code. Pinecone now generates 70% of our PRs and automates hundreds of tasks every day to quietly handle work no one explicitly prompted. sierra.ai/blog/ai-pillin…

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Sam Altman @sama

2 weeks ago

we have heard enterprises on their concerns about AI costs, and 5.6 sol is a huge step forward for dollars-per-task, as are terra and luna

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Bret Taylor @btaylor

3 weeks ago

🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day! 250 years of freedom defined by universal principles that have reshaped the world. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”