Henry Shi

Henry Shi

San Francisco, California, United States
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Interested in meeting bright, ambitious and highly motivated individuals who have a…

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Experience

  • Super.com Graphic

    Super.com

    San Francisco, California, United States

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Waterloo

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    Greater New York City Area

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Education

  • University of Waterloo Graphic

    University of Waterloo

    Top of Class: 96% average

  • Sponsored the first Fellowship Scholarship for the OMSCS program:
    https://omscs.gatech.edu/news/omscs-alumnus-and-co-founder-snaptravel-gives-back-new-fellowship-program

  • - Present

    Was admitted and planning to take a study break after exiting my startup, but SV lore told me it was cooler to drop out of Stanford instead :)

  • Activities and Societies: • SAT Club - founder and president • Varsity Tennis Team - Co-captain

    • Top of Class: 98% average

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Publications

  • HBS Case: SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

    Harvard Business Publishing

    This Harvard Business School case explores the founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel nearly go bankrupt as people stopped traveling, but the crisis led to a discovery: their customers were lower-income and more cost-conscious than they had realized. The founders debated doing more customer discovery, and whether it was the right time to expand their…

    This Harvard Business School case explores the founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel nearly go bankrupt as people stopped traveling, but the crisis led to a discovery: their customers were lower-income and more cost-conscious than they had realized. The founders debated doing more customer discovery, and whether it was the right time to expand their ambitions.

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  • Real-world Conversational AI for Hotel Bookings

    IEEE Computer Science Society AI4I

    Awarded Best Paper by the IEEE Computer Science Society at the 2nd AI4I conference

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  • Identifying and Predicting Human Biases in Time Dependent Series: Modeling and Predicting Rankings in American College Football

    Undergraduate research report to analyze and model human perception biases in time dependent series data. The researched used machine learning models to identify human biases in American College Football rankings and made predictions based on these models to adjust for errors in human perception.

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Honors & Awards

  • Rising Stars Award

    Georgia Tech College of Computing

    https://www.cc.gatech.edu/rising-stars

  • Financial Times Fastest-Growing Companies | #11 Americas

    Financial Times

  • Young Alumni Achievement Medal

    University of Waterloo

    https://uwaterloo.ca/alumni/2022-alumni-awards

  • EY Entrepreneur of the Year

    EY

  • Deloitte Fast 500 | #5 in North America

    Deloitte

  • Forbes 30 Under 30

    Forbes

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