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Yee Lee

Investor

Former EIR at Venrock

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

Yee Lee serves as Knowledge Impact Builder at Imperial College Business School and works with Terraformation on forest growth initiatives related to climate adaptation. Lee authors The New New Shit, a newsletter covering waste and effluent management and related businesses. Over 25 years, Lee has been involved with seven startups as a four-time founder, with two acquisition exits to Google and TaskRabbit, and has made more than 100 angel investments.

Experience

  1. Imperial College Business SchoolKnowledge Impact Buildercurrent2023 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
  2. Terraformation Inc.Chief Growth Officer & VP Capital Marketscurrent2020 — presentHawaii, United States
  3. FacebookProduct Manager2016 — 2020Menlo Park, CA
  4. VouchCo-founder and Board member2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  5. TaskRabbitVP Engineering & Growth2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  6. One JacksonCTO2012Palo Alto, CA
  7. GoogleProduct Manager2011 — 2012Mountain View, CA
  8. KatangoVP Product2011Palo Alto, CA
  9. SkypeProduct Manager2010 — 2011Palo Alto, CA; London, UK; Tallinn, Estonia
  10. Matrix PartnersEIR2009
  11. TipMobileCo-founder and coder2008 — 2009
  12. VenrockEIR2007 — 2008
  13. SlideProduct & BD2005 — 2007
  14. PayPal, an eBay CompanyProduct & BU GM2001 — 2005
  15. 360 VenturesPartner and Co-founder2001
  16. AlphaBloxSpecial Projects Manager1999 — 2000United States
  17. Stanford UniversityGraduate Researcher and Course Instructor1997 — 1999
  18. Silicon GraphicsProcess Engineer1996 — 1997

Skills & more

Entrepreneurship15MySQL3Lean Startup1PHP1Perl1Product Management12Start-ups21Mobile Devices20Venture Capital12SaaSMobile Applications12Scalability
+12 moreProduct MarketingUser ExperienceCloud ComputingBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsRESTEnterprise SoftwareAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsProduct DevelopmentMonetizationE-commerce

Languages Mandarin Chinese

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Who is Yee Lee?
Yee Lee serves as Knowledge Impact Builder at Imperial College Business School and works with Terraformation on forest growth initiatives related to climate adaptation. Lee authors The New New Shit, a newsletter covering waste and effluent management and related businesses. Over 25 years, Lee has been involved with seven startups as a four-time founder, with two acquisition exits to Google and TaskRabbit, and has made more than 100 angel investments.
What companies has Yee Lee invested in?
Investments tracked here include Deako, Farmstead, Stilt.
Where did Yee Lee go to school?
Yee Lee studied at Stanford University (MS, Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management); University of California, Berkeley (BS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research).

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