Richard is the Managing Partner and Founder of AIX Ventures and CEO/Founder of you.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce, where he lead teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. 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 University in 2014 and later served as an adjunct professor in the CS department at Stanford. Outside of work, Richard enjoys paramotor adventures and photography.