John Xie
Co-Founder And CEO at Taskade
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Xie is a serial founder and CEO with nine years at the helm of Taskade and two decades of hands-on systems experience that began running game servers and datacenters as a teenager. He built and scaled multiple consumer and infrastructure businesses—from Cirtex hosting and Minus to MeowChat (acquired)—and now leads Taskade Genesis, a product that turns a single prompt into living, autonomous apps with memory, agents, and automated flows. A YC S19 alum, he combines deep operational rigor (99.9% uptime mindset) with product-led AI innovation, having shipped real-time collaboration, agent-driven automation across 100+ services, and over 100,000 generated apps. John also invests in early-stage startups and has experience in international product scaling from roles at ByteDance and elsewhere. He’s pragmatic: execution over theory, building for failure, and optimizing for systems that run without hand-holding. Based in San Francisco, he quietly bridges hardcore infrastructure instincts with a vision for workspaces that behave like living systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorThe Bronx High School of ScienceRhode Island School of DesignBabson College
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
testing10
low-level10
npm-package10
voc10
wearables10
tencent10
session-replay10
recording10
api10
autogpt10
api-rest10
saas10
quantified-self10
nodejs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
datluong/awesome-outliners
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
javascriptreactreally
johnxie/ToolsOfTheTrade
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
newstradetrading
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