Richard Socher is co-founder and CEO of You.com, a leading web search infrastructure provider for AI, and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, a company building self-improving AI to automate knowledge discovery. He is also co-founder and managing director of AIX Ventures. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce, having joined through the 2016 acquisition of his AI startup MetaMind. He holds a PhD from Stanford.