Bret Taylor

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Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor - TechCrunch Real-Time Stream Crunchup - 2009.jpg
Taylor in July 2009
Born 1979/1980 (age 43–44)[1]
Residence Mountain View, California
Education Stanford University
Occupation Founder at Quip
Known for FriendFeed, Google Maps, Facebook Open Graph
Spouse(s) Karen Padham Taylor (m. 2006)[2]
Website backchannel.org

Bret Taylor is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the co-creator of Google Maps and the Google Maps API.[3][4] Taylor left Google in June 2007 to join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence, where he and Jim Norris, another former Google employee, created the social network web site FriendFeed.[5][6] Taylor was the CEO of FriendFeed until August 2009, when the company was acquired by Facebook for an estimated $50 million.[7] Taylor was the CTO of Facebook[8] until the summer of 2012 when he left to start his own company.[9] On March 15, 2013, it was announced that Mike Schroepfer would fill the role as the new CTO of Facebook.[10]

Taylor also co-wrote and maintains Tornado web server. The software was created at FriendFeed and was open-sourced after FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook in 2009.[11]

Taylor attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelor's degree (2002) and master's degree (2003) in computer science.[12][13]

On June 15, 2012, Taylor announced his plans to leave Facebook to start a new company.[14] On July 30, 2013, Quip announced he was a founder.[15]

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  13. Bret Taylor at CrunchBase. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
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  15. "Introducing Quip"