Richard Socher is the co-founder and CEO of you.com and co-founder and managing director of AIX Ventures. He previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, he was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford and served as an adjunct professor. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors and prompt engineering. He has over 220,000 citations.