Bret Taylor

Bret Taylor is currently Founder and CEO of Quip and was formerly the CTO of Facebook. He joined Facebook as the head of platform in August 2009, after serving as the co-founder and CEO of the social network aggregator FriendFeed. He most recently worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, where he began to develop FriendFeed with Jim Norris. During his four years at Google, he led more than 25 successful product launches, including Google Maps, Google Local, Google Web Toolkit, the Google Maps API, and Google's Developer product group. In 2006 he received the highest honor given to a Google Employe e, the Founders' Award, in recognition of his contributions. Stanford University BS, Computer Science w/ Distinction Jan 1, 2002 MS, Computer Science Jan 1, 2003