You.com founder Richard Socher’s plan to win the AI search wars
Most major AI companies now have a search function. You.com built the market—and its founder insists it’s still the best option out there.
In 2020, Richard Socher left Salesforce to build the next big search engine. Google was king back then, but he felt its flagship product was woefully inefficient. Search queries were filled with SEO sludge and invasive advertisements, and the answers it provided were often too simplistic for the average knowledge worker. Using AI, Socher made sure the highest-quality information shone through in his product, You.com.

