Richard Socher On Selling A Company To Salesforce And Raising $199 Million To Build An AI Assistant Helping Users Be More Productive, Creative, And Informed

In this episode of the DealMakers podcast, Richard Socher, a prominent AI entrepreneur, shares his inspiring journey from academia, where he earned his PhD at Stanford, to founding MetaMind, a company later acquired by Salesforce. He then went on to create You.com, a search engine designed to deliver accurate, cited answers while enhancing productivity for knowledge workers, successfully raising nearly $200 million in funding. Socher also offers valuable insights from his AI venture capital firm, AIX Ventures, stressing the critical role of effective marketing in tandem with technological innovation and exploring how AI has the potential to transform productivity and access to knowledge.