Richard Socher is currently the CEO of you.com, a new trusted search engine.

Previously, he was the chief scientist (EVP) at Salesforce where he lead teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, CRM search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. Before that he was an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer science department and the founder and CEO/CTO of MetaMind which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. In 2014, he got his PhD in the CS Department at Stanford.