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Richard Socher

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Co-founder and CEO at You.comFounder and CEO at Recursive

🇩🇪 German

Socher developed recursive neural networks that build sentence meaning from smaller phrases and co-created the Stanford Sentiment Treebank, a widely used language benchmark. He later founded MetaMind and You.com, bringing language research into enterprise search, and launched Recursive to pursue self-improving AI systems.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder and CEO 2020-present
Founder and CEO 2025-present
Previously
2016-2020Chief Scientist and EVP,
2014-2016Founder and CEO,
Adjunct Professor,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26255,636238,782221,927Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
255,636citations as of Sep 1, '26+7,251 since Aug 1, '26
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