Henry Shi
Businessperson
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Henry Shi is a technology entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California.[1] He co-founded Super.com (formerly Snapcommerce)[2] in April 2016, and served as the CTO and COO.[3] Shi currently works at Anthropic as a chief technology advisor.[4]
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| Education | Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Organization | Super.com |
Board member of | Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing |
Early life and education
Shi graduated from the University of Waterloo.[5] He was also admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[6] In 2016, He joined Georgia Tech's OMSCS and now serves on the advisory board of the College of Computing.[7] Shi was also given the Rising Stars award by Georgia Tech in May 2023.[8] While at Waterloo, he was also accepted into The Next 36 program.[9]
Career
Shi began working during his undergraduate studies, as a programmer analyst at Scotia Capital in 2011.[10][11] In January 2012, during his co-op term in New York he joined Bloomberg as a Software Developer and built sabermetrics software in scouting and predictive analytics for the MLB.[12]
Shi interned at LendUp in the company's early days when they only had ten employees.[13] During his term at Google in 2014, He built and launched 'Music Insights' for YouTube.[14]
Super.com
Launched in 2016 as Snapcommerce by Hussein Fazal and Shi,[15] Super.com is a savings and earnings application with fintech, rewards and travel use cases.[16][17][18] Fazal leads Super.com as CEO along with Shi as COO/CTO.[19] The company has grown to over 200 employees and $150M in revenue annually. In 2024, Super.com was named America's 45th fastest growing companies by Financial Times.[20]
Investments
Henry Shi has been an Angel and Seed investor in various AI startups including Ollama, LlamaIndex, Fal.ai, Higgsfield AI, Fileread, Superblocks and Wield.[citation needed][21]