How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor)
About this episode
The episode explores the unique aspects of AI compared to previous technology waves with insights from industry leaders Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor.
Is AI just better software? Or something completely different that requires a new paradigm to understand? Today we sit down with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, two of the best product builders in the world to tackle that question. Bret and Clay are the co-founders of the AI company Sierra. Brett's resume reads like a greatest hits of Silicon Valley: co-creator of Google Maps, founder of FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook where he became CTO), founder of Quip (acquired by Salesforce where he became co-CEO), former Chairman of the Board at Twitter, and current Chairman of the Board at OpenAI. Clay spent 18+ years at Google, starting as an APM alongside Brett and eventually running product for Gmail, Drive, Docs (all of Google Workspace), Google Labs, and the company's AR/VR efforts. In addition to AI, today’s conversation has some great tech industry history discussion and old Google stories, perfect to tide us all over between Google Part I and Part II! Additional Topics: The accelerating adoption curves of technology waves, and if we’ll ever see an app that gets a billion users in one day Second- and third-order effects of agents on the internet economy and customer experience Making…
People in this episode
Hosts: Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal
Guests: Bret Taylor, Clay Bavor
Topics covered
- AI technology
- product building
- Silicon Valley history
- technology adoption
- internet economy
- AI pricing models
Keywords
- AI
- technology waves
- Silicon Valley
- product development
- internet economy
- adoption curves
- pricing models
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Sierra, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, OpenAI
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