Editing Gary Chevsky (section)

== Career ==
In 1992, Chevsky was hired by Garrett Gruener, fellow Berkeley grad and eventual co-founder, to help write programming for the Ask Jeeves concept site. After parting ways, he went on to work for [[IBM Informix|Informix]] before reconnecting with Gruener in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ucsdmag.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol3no2/features/jeeves.htm|title=@UCSD: Ask Jeeves|last=Association|first=UCSD Alumni|website=ucsdmag.ucsd.edu|access-date=2017-05-22|archive-date=2012-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725020250/http://ucsdmag.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol3no2/features/jeeves.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1995 to 2006, Chevsky worked on [[question answering]] and information-retrieval technologies at [[Ask Jeeves]] (now [[Ask.com]]). Subsequently, he served as Vice President of Engineering at [[Symantec Corporation]] in its Consumer Business Unit (known for its [[Peter Norton Computing|Norton]] brand), developing web security technologies such as [[Norton Safe Web]]. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Product Development, Operations & IT for [[YouSendIt]] (now [[Hightail]]).{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} In July 2011, Chevsky was hired at Tango.me, a video calling company, to oversee engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2011/07/05/tango-hires-yousendit-executive-to-head-engineering-expansion/|title=Tango hires YouSendIt executive to head engineering expansion – East Bay Times|date=5 July 2011|access-date=2017-05-22}}</ref> Chevsky went on to become the President of Tango, which during his tenure grew from less than 10 million to over 400 million users worldwide. In 2017, Chevsky envisioned the future of video communication in [[virtual reality]] and started an effort at Tango around Social VR, eventually leading the spin-off of the project into a stand-alone company StayUp Inc., with Chevsky as founder and CEO. StayUp was [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/imvu-the-leading-avatar-based-3d-social-network-acquires-stayup-inc-300696944.html acquired in 2018] by [[IMVU]], a social 3D world company, with Chevsky coming onboard as an executive advisor. In 2021, he joined [[RingCentral]] as Vice President of Collaboration.