Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy (born 1967) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is the cofounder and CEO of the startup company Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine.[1][2] He previously led Google’s $115 billion advertising division.[1][3]

Sridhar Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy in 2020
Born1967 (age 55–56)
Tamil Nadu, India
Alma materIIT Madras (BS)
Brown University (MS, PhD)
OccupationCEO
Known forco-founding Neeva
formerly running Google's ad business
Children2

Early life and education

Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in Tamil Nadu, India. He attended IIT Madras and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.[4] He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from Brown University.[1][4]

Career

After graduating from college, Ramaswamy researched database analytics for three years at Bell Labs and held similar positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Communications Research. While working for E.piphany as a machine learning systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company.[5][4]

Ramaswany joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of AdWords as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years.[5] In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google.[1][3]

Ramaswamy left Google in 2018 to become a partner at venture capitalist firm Greylock Partners. In 2019, he created Neeva as an alternative to Google Search, after becoming disillusioned with the limitations of the ad-supported search model. Instead of ads, Ramaswamy planned a subscription-based model for Neeva.[1] Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany;[6][7] Neeva was acquired by Snowflake Inc. in 2023.[8]

Personal life

Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons.[5]

References
  1. Wakabayashi, Daisuke (21 June 2020). "A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up". New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  2. Swant, Marty (8 March 2021). "After Building Google's Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative". Forbes. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  3. D'Onfro, Jillian (October 2, 2018). "The exec in charge of Google's biggest business leaves to join a venture firm". CNBC. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  4. "Sridhar Ramaswamy". Bloomberg,com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  5. Efrati, Amir (6 April 2015). "The Ascension of Google's Sridhar Ramaswamy". The Information. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  6. "Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine". BBC News. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  7. "Learn About The Creator Of The Revolutionary Ad-Free Search Engine". Top AI Blogs. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  8. "Snowflake acquires Neeva, days after the search startup pivots to enterprise". VentureBeat. 2023-05-24.
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