Founder of You.com, Richard Socher: How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI

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Apr 18, 2025

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Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of you.com and co-founder and managing partner at AIX Ventures. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. 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 has over 210,000 citations and served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

  • Winners & Losers: OpenAI, Gemini, Claude

  • How Partnerships Could Decide the Winners in AI

  • China vs US: Who Wins the War for AI

  • How Society and Economics Needs to Change in a World of AI

  • What Jobs Will Be Replaced, What Will Not

  • How Europe Needs to Change It’s Approach to AI

  • How AI Will Change Health and Longevity

  • AI in Consumer and Enterprise Markets

  • Quantum Computing and AI Misconceptions

  • Longevity, Personal Reflections, and Future Outlook

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