- Category:
- Richest Business
- Net Worth:
- $200 Million
- Birthdate:
- 1979 (45 years old)
- Gender:
- Male
- Profession:
- Entrepreneur
What is Bret Taylor's Net Worth?
Bret Taylor is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $200 million dollars. Bret Taylor is the co-creator of Google Maps, Google Maps API and later the social network web site FriendFeed. Taylor left Google in 2007 to join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, where he co-created FriendFeed and served as the CEO of FriendFeed until 2009, when the company was acquired by Facebook. Taylor also co-wrote (and maintains) Tornado web server, a non-blocking web server.
Taylor graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree (2002) and a master's degree (2003) in computer science. Taylor went on to be one of the founders of Quip, along with former co-worker at Google Kevin Gibbs. Quip is a modern word processor that enables the creation of documents on a variety of devices such as smart phones, tablets and other computer devices.