Sources: Salesforce COO Bret Taylor told people close to him that he expects to be promoted to CEO soon
What will Salesforce look like when its co-founder and CEO, Marc Benioff, finally passes the baton to someone else? — The tech industry may get to find out sooner rather than later. Tweets: @amir , ...
Profile of Bret Taylor, Salesforce's new COO and the architect of its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, who might one day succeed Marc Benioff as CEO of the company
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Bret Taylor, former Facebook CTO and co-founder of FriendFeed, is joining Twitter's board
This board now looks radically different from the one that allowed Twitter to stagnate. — Twitter has appointed another new board member: Bret Taylor, the former chief technology officer at Facebook...
In Y Combinator reorg, Paul Buchheit, Gmail creator and FriendFeed founder, is now managing partner of core YC program, Altman remains president
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In Y Combinator reorg, Paul Buchheit, Gmail creator and FriendFeed founder, is now managing partner of core YC program, Altman remains president
YC Switches Up Its Management, As Altman Shifts Focus — Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman …
Facebook to shut down FriendFeed on April 9, five years after acquiring the service
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You've Got FMail
The news on Monday appears to be that Facebook will reinvent email. TechCrunch says it's the long awaited Gmail killer. Others say it's Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit's project since he came to Facebo...
Facebook's Paul Buchheit talks about Facebook, Google and his new gig
Earlier today we reported that Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and founded FriendFeed,was leaving Facebook to join Y Combinator. We caught up with Buchheit on his last day at Facebook. — Q: What w...
Social Layers and Social Intention
I read Mike Arrington's post on Google's social efforts just now. I have not seen any of Google's work. I have not been briefed. I really have no clue what they are building. But this quote got my...
Q & A: Facebook's Bret Taylor on privacy, the transition from FriendFeed
It's been 10 months since Facebook bought FriendFeed, which arguably was its most significant acquisition since the company was founded. (Parakey was the other influential acquisition.)