Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the co-creator of Google Maps and the Google Maps API.[2][3] 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.[4][5] Taylor was the CEO of FriendFeed until August 2009, when the company was acquired by Facebook for an estimated $50 million.[6] Taylor is currently the CTO of Facebook.[7]
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.[8]
Taylor attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelors degree (2002) and masters degree (2003) in computer science.[9][10]
References
- ^ Lashinsky, Adam (October 14, 2010). "40 under 40". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.40_under_40.fortune/27.html.
- ^ "Mapping your way". Google. 2005-02-08. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-your-way.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "The world is your JavaScript-enabled oyster". Google. 2005-06-29. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/world-is-your-javascript-enabled_29.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital". VentureBeat. 2007-06-20. http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/20/two-top-google-engineers-leave-to-benchmark-capital/. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ Markoff, John (2007-10-01). "Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/technology/01feed.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ Vascellaro, Jessica E. (2009-08-11). "Facebook Acquires Start-Up FriendFeed". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124993350820120361.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ McCarthy, Caroline (2010-06-02). "Facebook promotes Bret Taylor to CTO". CNET News. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20006634-36.html. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
- ^ "Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python". Facebook. 2009-09-10. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=301. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Executive Bios". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?execbios. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
- ^ Bret Taylor at CrunchBase. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
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