Entrepreneur, Advisor, Seed Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at TipMobile
- Past
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- 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
- Education
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- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
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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
Advisor:
* Cozimo.com
* SiteSafari.com
* ZingFu.com
Investor:
* Crunchyroll.com
* Flywheel Ventures
* iLeonardo.com
* SlideShare.net
* Squidnote.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, product management, startup strategy, corporate development, business development, operations management
Yee Lee’s Experience
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CEO
TipMobile
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Working on mobile/SMS apps, games, chat, microblogging, F8, OpenSocial, monetization platforms, and consumer credit. All rolled into one giant experimental ball of wax, held together with dental floss, and chewing gum. Then soaked in caffeine. And ignited.
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Entrepreneur In Action
Venrock
(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
November 2007 — April 2008 (6 months)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Stanford University
MS , Management Science & Engineering , September 1996 — June 1998
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University of California, Berkeley
BS , Industrial Engineering and Operations Research , August 1991 — December 1995
