Mark Xu
Partner at Fireworks AI
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Xu is a venture partner and investor with six years of deal-making and board-level experience, currently at Index Ventures after a recent partner role at Lightspeed. He focuses on early to growth-stage enterprise and infrastructure companies, with portfolio involvement spanning security, observability, and AI startups such as Wiz, Grafana, Anduril, and newer bets like Fireworks AI and Parallel Web Systems. Trained in applied mathematics, economics, and computer science at Harvard and with a Juilliard pre-college background in violin, he pairs quantitative rigor with creative instincts in sourcing and scaling technical founders. Based in Beijing and active as a board observer, he brings a hands-on operational perspective to governance and product strategy. Known for a direct, outcomes-driven approach (and a memorable GitHub quip), he blends LP-caliber diligence with founder empathy to accelerate product-market fit.
6 years of coding experience
Hopkins SchoolApplied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityPre-College, Violin, Pre-College, Violin at The Juilliard School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
cpu10
zerotier10
planet10
dockerfile10
pypi10
baidu10
tencent9
chatgpt9
python9
docker9
agent9
chatbot9
electron7
llm7
openai7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xubiaolin/handwrite_pinyin_rec
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
xubiaolin/docker-zerotier-planet
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
一分钟私有部署zerotier-planet服务
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 7 commits in 1 month
dockerfilezerotierplanetzerotier-networkself-host-zerotier
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