Gabriel Weinberg

Gabriel Weinberg is the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, a search engine best known for empowering its users to take control of their personal information online without any trade-offs. It was founded back in 2008 in Paoli, Pennsylvania and is the only platform that doesn’t profit from its users.

Weinberg has led it from a self-funded operation out of his basement into a growing business that has earned over $25M in revenue. It has about 124 employees from across multiple continents, and the 12-year old engine hosts 100.9M searches daily, setting a new record for the company.

In 2003, Weinberg launched Names Database, a social network that is now defunct; and in 2008, it was featured on TechCrunch’s “Elevator Pitch Friday” and was also a finalist in the BOSS Mashable Challenge. He is also the co-author of “Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models,” a Wall Street Journal bestselling self-help book, and “Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth.”

He has been profiled in the Washington Post and Fast Company and is routinely quoted in publications like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

He holds a B.S. with honors in Physics from MIT and an M.S. from the MIT Technology and Policy Program. Currently, he lives in Valley Forge, PA, with his wife and kids.