Making real-time data accessible for AI.
We’re on a mission to help people move faster, stay grounded, and do more with AI via Web Search APIs .
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THE PROBLEM
LLMs are only as good as the data they are trained on.
Real-time data isn't always factored in.
Foundational models still fall short when it comes to their training cutoffs—limiting the full benefits of agents built on top of them.
Disconnected data.
There’s no easy way to combine internal knowledge with real-time external sources, like the web or live news.
Untrustworthy outputs.
Hallucinations, un-cited claims, and off-base responses make results unreliable — and impossible to validate.
Rigid tooling.
No single foundational model delivers all the reasoning, retrieval, or domain coverage enterprises need.
Slow adoption.
Many teams lack the expertise needed to deploy, manage, and scale AI systems quickly and with confidence.
Security gaps.
Most AI tools don’t offer the security enterprises need to protect sensitive data, limiting their ability to adopt AI with confidence.
OUR VALUES
Accelerating human progress.
At You.com, we help engineers move fast on what matters most. We focus on delivering accurate, fresh, and actionable web intelligence.
Champion truth
Accuracy is our baseline, underscoring everything we create.
Always seek clarity
We focus on delivering clear, contextual answers, backed by transparent processes.
Lead with empathy
From our teammates to our customers, we've always got your back.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Meet the team building the future of AI web intelligence.
Richard Socher
CEO & Founder
Richard Socher is the CEO and founder of You.com and the CEO and co-founder of Recursive. He is also co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. Richard previously served as chief scientist and EVP at Salesforce, having joined through the 2016 acquisition of his first AI startup MetaMind. 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 earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where he also served as adjunct professor.
Alex Triplett
Chief Operating Officer
Alex Triplett is the Chief Operating Officer at You.com, bringing broad executive responsibility across strategy, go-to-market, product, and financial performance. Previously, Alex served as COO and CFO at Appfire, where he helped transform the company from a $100M ARR business to nearly $300M ARR, tripling revenue in three years and executing ten acquisitions. Before that, he spent twelve years at ION Group as Global Head of Corporate Development and Co-Head/CFO of ION's Corporates Division, where he led overall strategy, closed 22 acquisitions totaling over $11 billion in enterprise value, raised $27.5 billion in financing, and helped grow the firm from 600 to 12,000 employees. Earlier in his career, Alex was an investor at TA Associates and began his career in investment banking at Citigroup. He holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Business.
Saahil Jain
Chief Technology Officer
Saahil Jain is the CTO of You.com. He joined as a Founding Engineer in December 2020 and most recently served as Head of AI before being named CTO in 2026. Before You.com, Saahil was a graduate researcher in the Stanford Machine Learning Group under Professor Andrew Ng, where he researched deep learning and natural language processing in resource-constrained domains like healthcare. His research has been published at EMNLP, NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks, and ACM-CHIL, and he has released open-source machine learning models, methods, and datasets used by researchers at academic institutions and hospitals worldwide. Prior to Stanford, Saahil worked as a product manager at Microsoft on Office 365. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Saurabh Sharma
Chief Product Officer
Saurabh Sharma is the Chief Product Officer at You.com, where he leads product strategy for enterprise AI tools that enhance workplace productivity through intelligent AI agents. Previously, he was Head of Search Products at OpenSea, overseeing search, discovery, and trust & safety during a pivotal phase in the NFT space. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Google, rising to Group Product Manager, leading teams across Google Assistant, kids and family products, Gmail, and Google+. Earlier in his career, Saurabh co-founded a medical software startup and held engineering leadership roles at IBM. He holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
Alper Tekin
President of Search
Alper Tekin is the President of Search at You.com, where he leads strategy, product, solution engineering, and developer relations. He previously served as You.com's Chief Business Officer and GM of the API Infrastructure business. Prior to You.com, he was Chief Product Officer at Findem.ai, an AI recruitment company, and held the same role at Udacity, where he founded Udacity Enterprise — the company's B2B division — and launched its EMEA presence. Before Udacity, Alper was a serial entrepreneur in Europe, acting as founder and CEO of several startups, including AlfaPeople, Mekanist.net, and BlaBlaCar TR. He began his career at Microsoft and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
Jing Lee
Vice President of Finance and Operations
Jing Lee is the Vice President of Finance and Operations at You.com. She brings over 20 years of experience scaling strategy, finance, and operations for global consumer and technology companies, across both startup and Fortune 500 environments. Most recently, she was VP of Business Operations at eBay, leading global strategic planning, financial forecasting, investment allocation, and operational transformation. She also led business and revenue operations for Walmart's B2B retail media business, growing revenue from $200M to over $2B and the team from 50 to 1,000+. Jing started her career in investment banking and private equity. She holds a B.S. from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Kirsten Mellor
General Counsel and Secretary
Kirsten Mellor leads the Company’s global legal compliance and operations. Mellor is an accomplished technology and media executive with more than two decades of experience as a senior legal leader across high-growth startups, established digital brands, and public companies. Most recently, Kirsten served as General Counsel & Secretary at Resident Home, a platform of digitally native consumer brands in home goods. Prior to that, she held General Counsel roles at Aclima, a climate science data company, and Udacity, a global online technology education provider. Earlier in her career, Kirsten served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of IAC Search & Media, where she provided legal oversight for a portfolio of leading search and media properties including Ask.com, Investopedia, and Dictionary.com. As Vice President and General Counsel of CafePress, she led global legal operations through the company's successful IPO and a series of strategic acquisitions. She has also held senior executive legal roles at Macys.com, Riverdeep Interactive, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Critical Path, and Egreetings Network. Kirsten began her legal career in private practice as a corporate associate at the law firms Bingham McCutcheon, Testa Hurwitz & Thiebault, and Brobeck. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Villanova School of Law.
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Search Chief Scientist
Ricardo is one of the three most cited web search researchers in the world, co-author of Modern Information Retrieval, the canonical textbook of the field, and the inventor of foundational string search algorithms including the Shift-Or Algorithm. From 2006 to 2016 he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, where he led teams across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America and later served as CTO of NTENT, a semantic search company. Ricardo holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and has been a full-time professor at Northeastern University in its Silicon Valley campus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and Universidad de Chile in Santiago. He has been an ACM Fellow since 2009, an IEEE Fellow since 2011, and a founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering since 2010. He also has obtained national research awards in Spain (2018) and Chile (2024).
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