Summary
George Saines is a product leader and former founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building profitable products and launching startups, now focused on agentic AI for global enterprises as Director of Product Management at Salesforce. He has led product strategy across major platforms at Google, Meta/Facebook, and Salesforce, with deep expertise in privacy, consent, ad integrity, and IoT productization. As CEO and co-founder of CodeCombat and Skritter, he combined technical contributions—full-stack development on a popular coding-education game—with operational rigor and YC-backed startup experience. Known for translating complex regulatory and platform requirements into usable internal tooling, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-scale product delivery. Based in Austin, he pairs an economics background from Oberlin with pragmatic engineering instincts and a track record of shipping customer-focused, revenue-generating products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Make something people want Startups, Make something people want Startups at YC W14
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Economics, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Economics at Oberlin College