Sridhar Ramaswamy

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Sridhar Ramaswamy
2020588 Sridhar Ramaswamy 38.jpg
Born1967
Tamil Nadu, India
Alma materIIT Madras (BS)
Brown University (MS, PhD)
OccupationCEO
Known forcofounding Neeva
formerly running Google's ad business
Children2

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

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]

Personal life[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c "Sridhar Ramaswamy". Bloomberg,com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Efrati, Amir (6 April 2015). "The Ascension of Google's Sridhar Ramaswamy". The Information. Retrieved 15 March 2021.

External links[]

Carlson N. This unknown Google exec fought a brutal internal battle and now controls a $60 billion business. [1]

The Ascension of Google’s Sridhar Ramaswamy. [2]

Beck M. How Many Of Facebook’s Video Views Are Engaged? Google's Sridhar Ramaswamy questions the value of Facebook video given the social network's three-second standard for a view. May 21, 2015 [3]

Google’s Ads Boss: We Are Not a Retailer and Don’t Intend to Be One. [4]

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