person
Bret Taylor
Chairman of OpenAI; co-CEO of Sierra
Long-time tech executive (former Salesforce co-CEO, Twitter chairman) who became OpenAI board chair after the November 2023 governance crisis. Co-founded Sierra, an AI agent company.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
OpenAI board chair (since Nov 2023). Sierra co-founder. Earlier Salesforce co-CEO and Twitter board chair. Operates as exec; not a technical AI contributor.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Major-tech-exec profile; mainstream press regular.
vintage
Scaling era
Worldview formed during GPT-2/3, scaling laws, Anthropic's founding. Pre-ChatGPT but post-deep-learning. The 'scale is all you need' debate is live.
Salesforce co-CEO 2021-2022. OpenAI board chair 2023. Career bridges into scaling-era AI governance.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesAs OpenAI Chair, has emphasised structured governance and board independence; co-led the post-Altman-saga reform.
OpenAI's mission requires governance that can survive disagreement among its board.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.