Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom

Hello and welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday episode guest host, I recently sat down with Brett Taylor. The CEO of AI Startup Sierra, and the chairman of OpenAI. For a live event in San Francisco hosted by Alex Partners. Very few people have seen the tech industry up close like Brett Taylor has. He was an early engineer at Google before starting Friendfeed.

A social network he sold to Facebook in 2009, where he then served as CTO. He then found equip, which he sold to Salesforce. After eventually becoming co CEO of Salesforce, He left to start Sierra. Which is rethinking how businesses use AI for customer support.

Along the way, he led Twitter's board during Elon Musk's takeover, and became chairman of the OpenAI board after the firing and rehiring of Sam Ullman. As you'll hear in our conversation, Brett is all in on AI. Just this week, Sierra raised a new round of funding valuing it at$10 billion. In this episode, we get into the origins of Sierra and what it's doing now with AI agents. I also asked Brett about open AI and the overall trajectory of the AI industry.

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