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Bret Taylor: belief

10 Mar 2026 Cheeky Pint Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board

“I think not only am I somewhat skeptical that there will only be two companies in the world, I actually think one of the main things impeding adoption of AI is the lack of existence of all those other companies.”

— Bret Taylor

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Bret Taylor
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 Mar 2026
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

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…I totally agree. That have yet to be realized. I think if we had a mature applied AI market where the CFO could go buy that agent to onboard new supply chain vendors that just worked, we could actually accelerate that trillions of dollars of economic value. I think not only am I somewhat skeptical that there will only be two companies in the world, I actually think one of the main things impeding adoption of AI is the lack of existence of all those other companies. So many of the startups, particularly around here in San Francisco, are basically doing relatively rote tools around the AI rather than actually building agents for business processes that are boring but important and valuable. I'm really bullish on it. I guess you help companies ensure that they can always have access to the latest models, which sounds like a minor thing, but the leading model is always changing, and so that's not a trivial...…

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