Henry Shi

Henry Shi is a technology entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He co-founded Super.com (formerly Snapcommerce) in April 2016, and served as the CTO and COO. Shi currently works at Anthropic as a chief technology advisor.

Early life and education Shi graduated from the University of Waterloo. He was also admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2016, He joined Georgia Tech's OMSCS and now serves on the advisory board of the College of Computing. Shi was also given the Rising Stars award by Georgia Tech in May 2023. While at Waterloo, he was also accepted into The Next 36 program.

Career Shi began working during his undergraduate studies, as a programmer analyst at Scotia Capital in 2011. 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.

Shi interned at LendUp in the company's early days when they only had ten employees. During his term at Google in 2014, He built and launched 'Music Insights' for YouTube.

Super.com Launched in 2016 as Snapcommerce by Hussein Fazal and Shi, Super.com is a savings and earnings application with fintech, rewards and travel use cases. Fazal leads Super.com as CEO along with Shi as COO/CTO. 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.

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.

Awards and recognition

Forbes 30 under 30, 2019