Gary Chevsky
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Gary Chevsky (born 11 September 1972 in
Tango
mobile video and audio-over-IP calling service for consumers, before founding a Social Virtual Reality company StayUp Inc.
Career
In 1992, Chevsky was hired by Garrett Gruener, fellow Berkeley grad and eventual co-founder, to help write programing for the Ask Jeeves concept site. After parting ways, he went on to work for
YouSendIt (now Hightail).[citation needed] In July 2011, Chevsky was hired at Tango.me, a video calling company, to oversee engineering.[2] Chevsky went on to become the President of Tango, which during his tenure grew from less than 10 million to over 400 million users worldwide. In 2017, Chevsky envisioned the future of video communication in virtual reality and started an effort at Tango around Social VR, eventually leading the spin-off of the project into a stand-alone company StayUp Inc., with Chevsky as founder and CEO. StayUp was acquired in 2018 by IMVU, a social 3D world company, with Chevsky coming onboard as an executive advisor. In 2021, he joined RingCentral
as Vice President of Collaboration.
Personal life
He immigrated to the
University of California Berkeley. He holds 5 patents [3] in the area of natural language processing and search/information retrieval, and is also featured [4] in the Search Engine exhibit in the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, CA.
References
- ^ Association, UCSD Alumni. "@UCSD: Ask Jeeves". ucsdmag.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ "Tango hires YouSendIt executive to head engineering expansion – East Bay Times". 5 July 2011. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7403938.html, 7639162, 7911362, 7912634 and 20070078842)
- ^ Searching for Profit: Gary Chevsky: Banners and Pop-Ups