Jean-Paul Schmetz
Chief of Ads, Brave Software
Jean-Paul (JP) Schmetz is the Chief of Ads and a board observer at Brave Software. In 2008 he founded and led Cliqz, which in 2021 became Brave Search. In addition to his work at Brave, JP is Chief Scientist at Burda, and is involved in the management of various technology companies across the United-States, Germany, and Vietnam. He holds three university degrees, including a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford.
Can you compete with Google Ads? Just ask Brave Search.
Competing with Google on search has never been easy— exhibit A: Microsoft Bing. But the tides are changing with the increasing scrutiny of Google's monopolistic practices, compounded by the developments of AI which bring into question search as we know it. Hear from JP Schmetz, founder of the search engine that in 2021 became Brave Search, now the world's fastest-growing independent search engine since Bing. His talk covers the history of Brave Search on our path to commercial viability with ads, and how we've achieved the scale necessary to perform for the world's leaders in paid search.
Competing with Google on search has never been easy— exhibit A: Microsoft Bing. But the tides are changing with the increasing scrutiny of Google's monopolistic practices, compounded by the developments of AI which bring into question search as we know it. Hear from JP Schmetz, founder of the search engine that in 2021 became Brave Search, now the world's fastest-growing independent search engine since Bing. His talk covers the history of Brave Search on our path to commercial viability with ads, and how we've achieved the scale necessary to perform for the world's leaders in paid search.