Bret Taylor at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Co-founder and CEO of Sierra (Sierra); chair of OpenAI’s board |
Age | 46 (Forbes, November 2026) |
Education | Stanford University, bachelor’s and master’s in computer science |
Before Sierra | Google (co-created Google Maps), FriendFeed, Facebook CTO, Quip, Salesforce co-CEO, Twitter chair |
Net worth | $2.5 billion (Forbes, November 2026) |
btaylor@gmail.com, listed on his own homepage | |
X |
Sierra CEO email address: how to reach Bret Taylor
Taylor lists a personal address himself: his homepage, backchannel.org, links to btaylor@gmail.com alongside his LinkedIn and X accounts (backchannel.org). It is a personal inbox and a busy one, so keep any note short. He is on X as @btaylor, with about 165,000 followers, and on LinkedIn with about 177,000.
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
btaylor@gmail.com | From his homepage, backchannel.org | |
X | @btaylor | About 165,000 followers |
linkedin.com/in/brettaylor | About 177,000 followers | |
Sierra | privacy@sierra.ai | The only company address Sierra publishes, for privacy requests |
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
Oct 30, 2026 | Sierra passes $400 million ARR |
May 4, 2026 | Sierra raises $950 million at a valuation over $15 billion |
Nov 2023 | Becomes chair of OpenAI’s board |
2023 | Co-founds Sierra with Clay Bavor |
Nov 2021–Jan 2023 | Co-CEO of Salesforce |
2021–2022 | Chair of Twitter’s board, until Elon Musk’s purchase |
2016 | Salesforce buys Quip, which he founded in 2012 |
2010–2012 | Chief technology officer of Facebook |
2009 | Facebook buys FriendFeed, which he co-founded in 2007 |
2003–2007 | Google, where he co-created Google Maps |
2003 | Master’s in computer science, Stanford |
How Bret Taylor got to Sierra
Taylor was born in Oakland, California, and studied computer science at Stanford. At Google he led the team behind Google Maps, then left in 2007 to co-found FriendFeed, which Facebook bought in 2009; he became Facebook’s CTO. He founded the document app Quip in 2012, sold it to Salesforce in 2016 and rose there to co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, and he chaired Twitter’s board through Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022.
In early 2023 he and Clay Bavor, whom he had hired at Google in 2005, decided over lunch to start a company together. Months later he also became chair of OpenAI’s board after the brief ouster of Sam Altman. He calls his OpenAI job “really not around day-to-day operations but governance.” Sierra has since grown to more than $400 million in ARR.
Bret Taylor’s net worth and age
Forbes estimates Taylor’s net worth at $2.5 billion as of November 14, 2026, and gives his age as 46 (Forbes). Forbes’ figure may not yet reflect Sierra’s May 2026 valuation of over $15 billion. Clay Bavor is also a billionaire by Forbes’ count (Forbes).
In his own words
“I think we’re also in a bubble, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money. I think both are absolutely true at the same time.”
— Bret Taylor, on AI, September 2025 (TechCrunch)
“We really think that your conversational AI agent should be not only transactional, but a brand ambassador.”
— Bret Taylor, October 2024 (NBC)
“My job at OpenAI is really not around day-to-day operations but governance.”
— Bret Taylor, February 2024
“So please bring us your hard problems.”
— Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, October 30, 2026
Sierra’s leadership
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Bret Taylor | Co-founder and CEO; chair of OpenAI’s board |
Clay Bavor | Co-founder and director; formerly ran Google Labs |
Eric Eyken-Sluyters | President of field operations |
Julia Brau Donnelly | Chief financial officer since August 2026, formerly Pinterest’s CFO |
Kyle Randolph | Chief information security officer since November 2026 |
Sierra’s revenue, funding and products are on the Sierra company profile.
