Yee Lee

Current

• Founder at Funco

Past

• EIR at Matrix Partners
• CEO at TipMobile
• Entrepreneur In Action at Venrock

• Director, Product at Slide
• Sr. Manager, Funding Sources at PayPal, an eBay Company
• Product Manager at PayPal, an eBay Company
• Partner and Co-founder at 360 Ventures
• Special Projects Manager at AlphaBlox
• Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
• Instructor, Business Simulation Director at Stanford/AEA Executive Institute
• Process Engineer at Silicon Graphics

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Yee Lee’s Summary

Current:
* Working on lowering my bug count

Startup contributor:
* PayPal
* Slide
* AlphaBlox

Educator:
* Stanford CS377 "The Facebook Class -- Persuasive Apps & Metrics"
* Stanford MS&E273 "Technology Venture Formation"
* Stanford / AEA Executive Institute

Investor:
* SlideShare.net
* Crunchyroll.com
* Flywheel Ventures
* GroupCard.com
* Togetherville.com

Advisor:
* Lunchster.com
* ZingFu.com

Hack coder:
YouFRO.com, Sudojo.com, iVoted.com, Gruuvy.com, Commentist.com, Facebook "Smarter Than My Friends", Facebook "DoThings", Facebook "WeShare"

Yee Lee’s Specialties:

web product & service design, lean startup, customer development, quantitative product management, viral product design, viral app metrics, startup strategy, corporate development, business development, operations management

Yee Lee’s Experience

• Founder

  Funco

  (Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  We're making the world a better place and creating a great place to work. Ask me how! :-)

• EIR

  Matrix Partners

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 2009 — October 2009 (4 months)

  Scouting and creating startups. Focused on social influence and mobile apps.

• CEO

  TipMobile

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Learned many lessons in failing fast: TipMobile SMS apps platform. Rolago group-microblogging service. EZIOU social credit and payments network.

• Entrepreneur In Action

  Venrock

  (Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  November 2007 — April 2008 (6 months)

• Director, Product

  Slide

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — October 2007 (2 years )

  * PM for Frappr.com, post-acquisition by Slide
  * PM for Slide Premium Goods (virtual goods ecommerce)

• Sr. Manager, Funding Sources

  PayPal, an eBay Company

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Financial Services industry)

  October 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  * Lead Funding Sources business unit
  * Drove continuous improvement in cost savings, lowering annual funding costs by $2MM with cross-functional team of 5 employees

• Product Manager

  PayPal, an eBay Company

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Financial Services industry)

  December 2001 — October 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  • Delivered dozens of site features through 10+ product development cycles
  • Launched foundational products that enabled PayPal's growth in several areas: Off-eBay Merchant Services, Post-Merger eBay Integration, and Debit Cards

• Partner and Co-founder

  360 Ventures

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  December 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  • Advised early-stage startups on fund-raising and business development strategy

• Special Projects Manager

  AlphaBlox

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  • Managed corporate finance and M&A projects at a privately held enterprise software company

• Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Assistant

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 4 months)

  • Researched top management team dynamics at Silicon Valley technology companies
  • Contributed materials to Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos by Brown & Eisenhardt (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Worked with angel investors Audrey Maclean and Mike Lyons to teach business venturing skills to graduate engineering students
  • Assisted over 100 aspiring startup teams in formulating and authoring business plans, business models, and investor pitches

• Instructor, Business Simulation Director

  Stanford/AEA Executive Institute

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)

  • Developed original lectures and utilized SMG business simulation exercise to teach Operations Management course for technology company executives

• Process Engineer

  Silicon Graphics

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; sgi; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 8 months)

  • Designed assembly line layout and factory floor processes for optimal efficiency of assembly, test, packaging, and shipping operations
  • Created web-based applications for tracking customer orders on factory floor

Yee Lee’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS , Management Science & Engineering , September 1996 — June 1998

• University of California, Berkeley

  BS , Industrial Engineering and Operations Research , August 1991 — December 1995

Additional Information

Yee Lee’s Websites:

• My Website

Yee Lee’s Groups:

•    Entrepreneurs-in-residence