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About Bret Taylor

Co-founder of FriendFeed, former Salesforce co-CEO, AI and tech leader. In Scoble's early tech and modern AI rosters.

Bret Taylor is a serial founder and former Salesforce co-CEO focused on AI adoption and enterprise applications. He shapes AI discourse through balanced analysis of practical deployment challenges across customer service and retail sectors.

What Bret talks about (last 22 posts)

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Sources (22)

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  1. Formalizing Kantian Ethics for Robust AI Moralitypaper · 2026-04-17
  2. Queer Artists Resist Generative AI Integrationpaper · 2026-04-17
  3. SciPICal: Calibrating Synthetic Galaxy Catalogs for Cosmological Surveyspaper · 2026-04-17
  4. Copositive Duality for EV Charging Pricing Under Discrete Constraintspaper · 2026-04-17
  5. Enhanced Distance Protection for GFM Inverter Gridspaper · 2026-04-16
  6. JWST Detects Carbon Disulfide and Chemical Coupling in a Warm Giant Exoplanet Atmospherepaper · 2026-04-16
  7. Euclid Data Reveals Dual AGN in Low-Mass Galaxiespaper · 2026-04-16
  8. Realisation-Level Privacy Filters Boost Utility in Adaptive Differentially Private Query Sequencespaper · 2026-04-13
  9. MolmoWeb: Open 8B Multimodal Agent Outperforms Proprietary Baselines on Web Taskspaper · 2026-04-13
  10. Scale-Invariant Linear Programming for Optimal Projection Design in Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturingpaper · 2026-04-13
  11. bret starred watir/watir-classic: Watir Classic is deprecated. Please use Watir 6.0+ which is based on Seleniumgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  12. bret starred watir/watirspec: Executable specification of the Watir API (NOT MAINTAINED)github_star · 2026-04-12
  13. bret starred scudco/taza: Now maintained by Hammernightgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  14. bret starred zeljkofilipin/selenium-scratch: Selenium bindings in Scratch, visual programming language for kidsgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  15. bret starred oneclick/rubyinstaller: RubyInstaller for Windows - Build recipesgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  16. bret starred gdagley/basejumper: The starter Rails application I would use if it existed.github_star · 2026-04-12
  17. bret starred NoRedInk/rspec-retry: retry randomly failing rspec examplegithub_star · 2026-04-12
  18. bret starred hmcgowan/parseexcel: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel - Get information from an Excel file. Modifying to port font supportgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  19. bret starred influxdata/influxdb-python: Python client for InfluxDBgithub_star · 2026-04-12
  20. bret starred mastodon/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging communitygithub_star · 2026-04-12
  21. AI Agents: The New Digital Front Door for Retailersyoutube · 2026-04-09
  22. Diverse Tech Innovations: AI, Robotics, and Fintech Reshape Industriesyoutube · 2026-04-06