Taylor rose through the ranks at Salesforce extremely quickly. He joined the company in 2016, when it acquired his word processing startup Quip and reported directly to Benioff right away, which is rare for startup CEOs post-acquisition. Soon after, in 2017, Taylor made the leap to the C-suite as the president and chief product officer of Salesforce, before his latest promotion to COO in December 2019. Prior to Quip, Taylor was Facebook's chief technology officer and helped lead the company through its IPO in 2012 — and gets the credit for creating its "Like" button. Before that, he was at Google, where he helped create Google Maps.