
Bret Taylor is an American entrepreneur who married his wife Karen Padham Taylor in 2006. Bret Taylor is best known for co-creating Google Maps and has had his hands on other prominent social media platforms.
Bret was the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook for three years, from August 2009 to July 2012, and a board member and then Chairman of the Board of Twitter from July 2016 to October 2022.
He is currently working as the Co-CEO of Salesforce, where he has previously been employed as the CEO of Quip.
As can be seen from just these few examples from his resume, Taylor has dipped his toes in some of the most prominent tech giants in the industry, and he doesn't seem to stop.
Bret Taylor And His Wife Karen Padham Taylor Married In 2006
Bret Taylor is married to his wife Karen Padham Taylor in Douglas County, Nevada.
Bret and Karen currently reside in San Francisco with each other and their three children.
The two met during a monthly online poker game with his colleagues at Google. She worked at Google as an associate product manager in the company's shopping search.
Karen is known to have worked at Google until 2010, but she does not have a LinkedIn or any other form of social media footprint.
Among the most prominent things Karen has been a part of since the end of her tenure at Google is that she has created a scholarship in her alma mater.
Karen Padham Taylor Scholarship for Women in Computer Science is awarded to women majoring in the subject in her alma mater, the University of Waterloo.
The scholarship is made of two, each valued at $7,500, awarded annually.
They are awarded to two full-time undergraduate students enrolled in their third year of Honors in Computer Science or Software Engineering in the university's school of Computer Science. The scholarship is fully funded by Karen Padham Taylor alone and is available to Canadian citizens and International students.
Karen is a Canadian student of Indian descent and graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 2003. The same year, her soon-to-be husband graduated from Stanford with his Master's degree.
Aside from the scholarship for women, Padham has also been active as a supporter of Lafayette Partners in Education.
This is a non-profit organization that helps to expand and enhance educational opportunities in the schools in Lafayette, California.
Bret Taylor Has Three Children
Bret Taylor and his wife, Karen Padham Taylor, have three children together.
Though their names are unknown, his various tweets show that the oldest was born in 2010, the middle child in 2012, and the youngest in 2015.
Taylor and his wife have taken great pains hiding their children from social media, with only the occasional photo from a game or other social event.
Given that Karen has largely eschewed a public life in social media, and Taylor rarely uses social media in any way aside from speaking about sports and sometimes his company, their level of privacy comes as no surprise.
Still, Taylor often tweets about his children, if only to talk about their generational divide and the foibles of raising children in the internet age.
As stated above, both Bret and Taylor are highly invested in education and are involved in the education of their town in Lafayette.
This dedication shows itself in how they rear their children, as well as Taylor has stated that they are very hands-on.
In a nutshell, Karen Padham seems content to live her private life as a mother, a wife, and an occasional philanthropist.
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