Gabriel Weinberg yegg@duckduckgo.com
Since 2008, I've been the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. Our private search engine is #4 in the U.S., Germany, Australia and dozens of other countries, answering over 9 billion queries in 2018.
I'm also the co-author of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Penguin Portfolio, 2019) and Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth (Penguin Portfolio, 2015).
Before DuckDuckGo, I founded other Internet-related companies. My formal education is from MIT (B.S. Physics, '97-01; M.S. from the Technology and Policy Program '03-05). I live in Valley Forge, PA with my wife and two kids.
Contact: Twitter,
PGP,
Signal,
Press.
Opinion pieces:
- What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising? (Jun 2019, New York Times)
- Testimony Before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee (Mar 2019)
- Google and Facebook are watching our every move online. It's time to make them stop. (Jan 2018, CNBC).
Profile pieces:
- Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. (Jan 2019, Medium)
- Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor (Feb 2014, Fast Company)
- Ducking Google in search engines (Nov 2012, Washington Post).