Richard Price is the founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a social platform for academics to share their research, monitor deep analytics about the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. Academia.edu currently has 1.8 million members who have contributed 1.6 million research papers. It is based in San Francisco, Calif. and has received investments from Spark Capital, Spark Ventures, and True Ventures.

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