Jean Lafleur
FounderCo-Founder & COO at Airbyte
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedAirbyte · YC
About
Jean Lafleur is co-founder of Airbyte, an open-source data integration platform. He has founded multiple startups over his career and spent over a decade building product teams, while also contributing technical writing to publications including SDTimes, The New Stack, and Linux.com.
Jean Lafleur @jeanlafleur
Can't be more excited about Airbyte right now :)! https://t.co/YtpY8nrAN6
May 5, 2026
Jean Lafleur @jeanlafleur
Open-source isn’t a value statement. It’s a business architecture decision. Get it right and you get bottom-up adoption. Get it wrong and you run a support Slack. I wrote the framework I use when founders ask: Should we go OSS? https://t.co/wnRv8ejlPh https://t.co/nbffa6RkOV
Feb 10, 2026 · ♥ 1 · ⇄ 1
Jean Lafleur @jeanlafleur
Most teams lose energy because the drag is constant. Uncomfortable truth: the biggest energy vampire on a team is often the high performer. Always available, improving, “just one more question.” It looks like leadership. 🧠 Are You the Energy Vampire? https://t.co/sd6wSOVoby https://t.co/cFiLRQ06OD
Feb 3, 2026
Co-Founder & COO at AirbyteYC W20
Intro paths
Jean went through Y Combinator (Winter 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Airbyte's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Jean can intro founders to Airbyte's investors below.
Airbyte's investors · 10
Co-founders at Airbyte
Experience
- AirbyteCo-founder & COOcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Extreme FoundershipAuthorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- CodinGameBoard Member2017 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- CodinGameCEO2017 — 2018San Francisco, California
- CodinGameCOO2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- AnaxiCo-founder & COO2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- StreamNation (acquired by Smugmug)Co-founder, Head of Product2010 — 2016San Francisco
- Ecole PolytechniqueTechnology Transfer Officer2009 — 2010
- As-App (acquired by Lumiplan)Co-Founder2008 — 2009
- Orange UKConsultant in Open Innovation2009London Area, United Kingdom
- Roland BergerJunior consultant2008Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
- Marine NationaleOfficer in the French Navy Seals2005 — 2006
Education
- École PolytechniqueMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Technological Innovation2005 — 2009
- University of CambridgeMPhil, Technology Policy2008 — 2009
Skills & more
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Knowledge ManagementMarketing StrategyStrategic ConsultingConsultingMobile DevicesMarket ResearchMobile ApplicationsUser ExperienceStrategyTeam ManagementManagementLeadershipLanguages English · French
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Also worked at StreamNation (acquired by Smugmug)1
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Also worked at Orange UK62
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