George Xing
About
I'm a product builder, founder, and data leader with expertise in developer tools, data products, and consumer marketplaces.
Most recently, I built AI agents and customer-facing data products at Stripe. Before that, I was the founder of Supaglue, a developer integrations platform that exited to Stripe. I started my career as a data scientist and led Lyft's data science and analytics teams from Series C through IPO.
I'm currently consulting and advising for a few startups and working on a few side projects. Occasionally I teach on Maven and write about data and AI.
I enjoy exploring new places, making pour-over coffee, and playing online chess.
Projects
- Personal assistant
Personal experiments in automation, like scrolling X for me and managing my credit card offers.
- Box spreads
A calculator for borrowing at near-Treasury rates with box spreads.
Writing
- How I built a bot that activates my credit card offers and saves me money
Reflections on agent harnesses, personal assistants, and the future of credit card offers
- How I built a bot to snag a reservation at Carbone
Lessons from building a reservation bot, landing a Friday table, and getting banned from Resy
- How AI revived semantic layers and the quest for self-serve analytics
Reflections from a data practitioner, founder, teacher, and product builder
- How I built a bot to automate my X doomscrolling
A personal utility to help me keep up with AI news
- How I build with AI as a 1-person product team
Tools and techniques I use to build higher-quality products, 10x faster
Books
Startups & work
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 by Tina Seelig
- The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy Jr.
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
Ideas
- How to Know a Person by David Brooks
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
- The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Breakneck by Dan Wang
Stories
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu