Kevin Xu

Biography

Kevin Xu is the author and founder of Interconnected.

Interconnected is a publication that analyzes businesses and trends from the lens of builders (entrepreneurs & engineers), operators (business managers), investors (capitalists), regulators (politicians and government officials), and how they are all connected.

Every post is bilingual, written in English and Chinese by Kevin. New post every Thursday and Sunday.

His writings on Interconnected and elsewhere have gained the attention of renowned journalists, investors, and entrepreneurs.

Formerly, Kevin was a founder of an e-commerce company and health insurance startup. He was a staffer at the Obama White House and on political campaigns. He has served as an executive and advisor on cross-border enterprise technology companies and in venture capital investing. Kevin studied Law and Computer Science at Stanford and International Relations at Brown University.

Articles, Publications, and Appearances

In the News

• Andrew Yang Knows You May Disagree With Him About Shane Gillis (The New York Times)

• Barbershop: Andrew Yang And Shane Gillis (NPR)

• Database Operators Bring Stateful Workloads to Kubernetes (The New Stack)

• The Decade in Asian America (NBC Asian America)

• TiDB: Distributed NewSQL with Kevin Xu (Software Engineering Daily)