Bret Taylor
Taylor in July 2009
Born	1979/1980 (age 31–32)[1]
Residence	Mountain View, California
Education	Stanford University
Occupation	CTO at Facebook
Known for	FriendFeed, Google Maps
Website
bret.appspot.com

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 bachelor's degree (2002) and master's degree (2003) in computer science.^[9][10]

References[link]

1. ^ Lashinsky, Adam (October 14, 2010). "40 under 40". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.40_under_40.fortune/27.html. 
2. ^ "Mapping your way". Google. 2005-02-08. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-your-way.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
3. ^ "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. 
4. ^ "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. 
5. ^ 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. 
6. ^ 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. 
7. ^ 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. 
8. ^ "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. 
9. ^ "Executive Bios". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?execbios. Retrieved 2011-02-18. 
10. ^ Bret Taylor at CrunchBase. Retrieved 2011-02-18.

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