Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBret Taylor: belief
10 Mar 2026 Cheeky Pint Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
“I think at the end of the day, when you're building a business, especially one that's in hyper growth, which successful businesses in tech tend to be, if you are too clever and austere, and going back to your point about Silicon Valley culture is all being the same, there are examples of companies that really innovated in culture.”
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- 10 Mar 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Maybe you could have had a $10 billion company if you'd hired a bit more. That's right, and I would actually argue the more specific thing is if all of a sudden, for some clever reason, you want to prove you can, the idea that a competitor might have 10 people and beat you is probably more likely than even having a $10 billion company. I think at the end of the day, when you're building a business, especially one that's in hyper growth, which successful businesses in tech tend to be, if you are too clever and austere, and going back to your point about Silicon Valley culture is all being the same, there are examples of companies that really innovated in culture. You wouldn't think of it this way, but HP, a lot of the traditional open office floor plan came from them. Facebook. Woz worked at HP.…
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