Richard Socher is the co-founder and CEO of You.com and co-founder and managing director of AIX Ventures. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors and contextual vectors, and pioneering prompt engineering. He has over 230,000 citations and has served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford.