Richard Socher is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence, an AI company that raised at least $500 million led by GV with participation from Nvidia at a $4 billion pre-funding valuation in 2026. Richard Socher's Twitter Score is 106 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #6,583 (top 5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Richard Socher founded You.com, an AI-powered search platform that closed a $100 million Series C in 2025 at a $1.5 billion valuation, and serves as its CEO. He also co-founded AIX Ventures, where he works as Managing Partner. Earlier in his career, he founded MetaMind, which Salesforce acquired in 2016, after which he served as Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. He previously worked at Stanford University as an adjunct professor.
Richard Socher is active on Twitter with 5,494 posts and has been mentioned by 98 accounts a total of 272 times, reflecting sustained attention from the broader AI and tech community.
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The accounts that follow Richard Socher include 465 founders, 130 angel investors, 68 influencers and 12 VCs, among them Balaji, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Kyle Samani, Andrej Karpathy and Threadguy. Richard Socher has attracted 122,580 followers as of September 2026 across his work spanning AI research, company building, and venture investing.