Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy | |
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Born | 1967 |
Alma mater | IIT Madras (BS) Brown University (MS, PhD) |
Occupation | CEO |
Known for | cofounding Neeva formerly running Google's ad business |
Children | 2 |
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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Swant, Marty (8 March 2021). "After Building Google's Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative". Forbes. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Sridhar Ramaswamy". Bloomberg,com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ 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]
- Brown University alumni
- Google employees
- 1967 births
- Living people