Using Big Data To Solve Social Discovery's Relevance Problem
Compared to traditional social networks, social-discovery products face a unique challenge in needing to do more than simply connect folks who are already friends.
Johann Schleier-Smith
Johann Schleier-Smith is co-founder and CTO at Tagged. He is responsible for building up and expanding the social network that enables and inspires anyone to meet and socialize with new people.
He has developed various products used by millions, created and managed large-scale infrastructures, innovated software development techniques and built recommendation engines and machine learning systems that move the industry forward.
Starting out as an entrepreneur in college, Johann launched a dozen businesses in collaboration with co-founder Greg Tseng before focusing on social networking in 2004. He pursued a Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford for several years, and holds an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University.