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What Clay Bavor thinks about innovation

@clay-bavor · 10 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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4 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Clay Bavor has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA company working at the edge of the barely possible has to control its own technology destiny, even at the application layer.

    Their wordsThis kind of zone of the barely doable, it's super important that to the largest extent possible, you be able to kind of control your own technology destiny.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingAn application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.

    Their wordsmany of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 19th of 22 in this recording

  5. Our readingBuilding at the AI frontier is science rather than programming: you pose hypotheses and invalidate them again and again.

    Their wordsso it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 20th of 22 in this recording

  7. Our readingSoftware at the AI frontier iterates in days where a hardware display takes years: a breakthrough on Monday can be in customers' hands on Wednesday.

    Their wordsWe can have a breakthrough in our agent architecture on Monday implemented on Tuesday and have it deployed with hundreds of our customers on Wednesday and directly see the impact of of that work.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 21st of 22 in this recording