Richard Socher · Person in New York Tech

Overview

Richard Socher is Founder at AIX Ventures [1][5], a position held since 2021 [5]. Socher simultaneously serves as CEO of You.com [4], a platform offering composable APIs that power agents, chatbots and language models, which has reached millions of users and processes approximately 1 billion monthly API calls [2]. Socher also holds the position of CEO at Recursive [3], focused on building recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery [2]. Previously, Socher was Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President at Salesforce from 2016 to 2020 [6], and founded MetaMind, serving as its CEO from 2014 to 2016 [9]. Socher earned a PhD in computer science with focus on deep learning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and vision from Stanford University between 2009 and 2014 [11], and subsequently taught at Stanford as a visiting lecturer and adjunct professor [7][8].

Profile introduction

Source excerptLinkedIn [2]

I’m working to accelerate the positive impact AI can have on human progress. I do this by pushing knowledge and search infrastructure for AI at you.com, building recursive self improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery at Recursive and helping founders build impactful AI startups at AIX Ventures. You.com's composable APIs make agents, chatbots and LLMs accurate, trustworthy, and up to date, powering everything from enterprise knowledge agents to research automation. ➤  Millions of users ➤  ~1 billion monthly API calls ➤  ~$200 M raised By 2026, AIX has already invested in…

Career history

CEO2025 to presentRecursive
CEO2020 to presentYou.com
Founder2021 to presentAIX Ventures
Chief Scientist, EVPApr 2016 to Aug 2020Salesforce
Adjunct Professor2017 to 2017Stanford University
Visiting Lecturer2015 to 2017Stanford University
Founder and CEOAug 2014 to Apr 2016MetaMind
PhD StudentSep 2009 to Aug 2014Stanford University

Education

PhD, cs: deep learning, ai, machine learning, nlp, vision2009 - 2014Stanford University

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