Shawn Cao

Shawn Cao

Crunching boring bytes into nice stories
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About

I spent 18 years in big tech, building digital products like applications, search engines, and big data infrastructure, with roles at Microsoft (8 years), Facebook (5 years), and Pinterest (3 years). My startup journey began with Nebula, an open-source analytics engine, and grew into creating accessible products for underserved communities. With Columns, our mission is to make data storytelling simple for non-technical users. We achieve this through fast cloud-based data processing, analytics, AI, and exceptional design. We also support a financial data product, Fina (fina.money)

Work

Founder & Leadership at Fina

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Fully Embrace Nature Language Interface

Columns: Your Ultimate Spreadsheet Alternative for Data Visualization

Looking for the best alternative to spreadsheets for creating and sharing data visualizations? Look no further than Columns!

Alexandra Cote

3yr ago

Anyone by any chance looking for a co-founder/founding marketer?

Requirements: must have great product or idea My background is in growth marketing, product marketing, and content. But I sure love being involved in product, UX, and operations. These are some of the areas I'd like to cover. TIA

Shawn Cao

3yr ago

visualization as a service

We're building a single API to serve all ad-hoc data visualization needs, seamlessly integrated into your software. In an early discovery, we found flexibility, speed, security, and customization basic requirements, if it's done well, many software developers don't need to worry about this piece of function, and just focus on the core business. Here is my proposal, what do you think? https://columns.ai/dev

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