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  "markdown": "President of Search, You.com.\n\nAlper Tekin is President of Search at You.com, leading strategy, product, solution engineering and developer relations, after serving as its chief business officer and general manager of the API business. He was earlier chief product officer at Findem.ai and at Udacity, where he founded the Udacity Enterprise division.\n\n## What Alper builds\n\n- [You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.md), graded BB, 75.9/100, in Web search APIs. Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, plus a hosted MCP server with six tools. President of Search, You.com, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Bryan McCann](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bryan-mccann/), Co-founder, You.com, CTO until March 2026, now an adviser and board member\n- [Richard Socher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/richard-socher-2/), Founder and CEO, You.com\n- [Saahil Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/saahil-jain/), Chief Technology Officer, You.com\n- [Saurabh Sharma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/saurabh-sharma/), Chief Product Officer, You.com\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)\n- [Georgian](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/georgian/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Gen Digital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gen-digital/)\n- [SBVA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sbva/)\n- [DuckDuckGo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/duckduckgo/)\n- [Day One Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/day-one-ventures/)\n- [Cox Enterprises](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cox-enterprises/)\n- [Norwest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/norwest/)\n- [Time Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/time-ventures/)\n- [Breyer Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/breyer-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Alper Tekin?\n\nAlper Tekin is President of Search at You.com, leading strategy, product, solution engineering and developer relations, after serving as its chief business officer and general manager of the API business. He was earlier chief product officer at Findem.ai and at Udacity, where he founded the Udacity Enterprise division.\n\n### What does You.com make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists You.com APIs from You.com. Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, plus a hosted MCP server with six tools.\n\n### Who has invested in You.com?\n\nThe sources our research read name Radical Ventures, Georgian, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Gen Digital, SBVA, DuckDuckGo, Day One Ventures, Cox Enterprises, Norwest, Time Ventures and Breyer Capital.\n\n### How are Alper's tools graded?\n\nYou.com APIs is graded BB, 75.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://you.com/about\n- https://you.com/\n- https://you.com/linkedin\n- https://you.com/x\n- https://you.com/docs/support/get-help\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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