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Clay Bavor

ROLE CO-FOUNDER AND CO-CEOMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN AUGUST 10, 2026
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Clay Bavor is a co-founder of Sierra, a conversational AI platform that builds customer service agents for businesses. He previously spent eighteen years at Google, where he served as the head of Google Labs and led the company's augmented and virtual reality efforts, including Project Starline and Google Lens. Earlier in his tenure at Google, he oversaw product management and design for core productivity tools such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Docs.

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mention·Acquired·AUGUST 10, 2026

Sierra has built customer-facing AI agents that can do a huge range of things. Not just basic support stuff like answering questions, but the kind of hard things that are closer to a company's core value creation.

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mention·20VC·JULY 4, 2026

We have not yet appreciated the unbounded demand for, call it frontier levels of intelligence... I think it's hard to get your mind around when you have intelligence that can work around the clock to invent, to build, to discover how you would use that and how much of it you could use.

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