Bret Taylor's Reading List

CEO of Sierra and chair of OpenAI; previously co-CEO of Salesforce, founder of Quip, CTO of Facebook.

Books from Lenny's Podcast: Bret Taylor (Sierra) — He saved OpenAI, invented the Like button, built Google Maps (2025)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-31).

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing · 1959 · Buy on Amazon

"One book I do recommend is Endurance, the story of Ernest Shackleton's journey to the South Pole. Half the book is just him and his crew frozen in their boat. It's remarkable that it's a true story."

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