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How to Data covers topics related to data, analytics, startups, company-building, and technology generally. It draws from my background as a data startup founder, operator, investor, and advisor. My goal is to share helpful and practical insights for data practitioners.

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About me

My name is George Xing and I’ve been deeply involved in data for most of my career – as an operator, founder, and angel investor.

As the first analytics hire at Lyft, I built and led the analytics team at Lyft from 2014-2020 and was responsible for driving company-wide decision-making through a period of over 100x growth.

In 2021, I started Supergrain to build a headless BI platform to help data teams create a source of truth for their metrics. Over the next 3 years, we built a warehouse-native marketing automation platform and Supaglue, an open source product integrations platform.

In March 2024, we were acquired by Stripe, where I’m currently a product manager building user-facing data products.

I’m a small angel investor and advisor to data and B2B SaaS companies.

Please reach out if you’d like to chat about data! You can find me on Twitter @g_xing or on LinkedIn.

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