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  "markdown": "Founder, You.com.\n\nRichard Socher founded You.com and is its CEO, and he co-founded Recursive and the venture firm AIX Ventures. He was chief scientist and EVP at Salesforce, which bought his first AI startup MetaMind in 2016. His research helped bring neural networks into natural language processing, and he earned his PhD at Stanford, where he was an adjunct professor.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsocher/\n\n## What Richard 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. Founder, You.com, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Backed by\n\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\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Richard Socher?\n\nRichard Socher founded You.com and is its CEO, and he co-founded Recursive and the venture firm AIX Ventures. He was chief scientist and EVP at Salesforce, which bought his first AI startup MetaMind in 2016. His research helped bring neural networks into natural language processing, and he earned his PhD at Stanford, where he was an adjunct professor.\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 Georgian, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Gen Digital, SBVA, DuckDuckGo, Day One Ventures, Cox Enterprises and Norwest.\n\n### How are Richard'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\nNot the same person as [Richard Socher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/richard-socher/) (Recursive), as far as the research can tell.\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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