Claremont McKenna College

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Lakewood High School

Former founder. ENTJ. Eternal Optimist.

• Started SPEEDRUN, which has now funded ~100 teams out of 12,000 applicants, committing $100M+ to support next-gen consumer, tech, and gaming startups.
• Invested/advised in founders from top tech companies like Meta, Instagram, and Uber to drive innovation at the intersection of AI, developer tools, and gaming.
• Managed a portfolio of startups building at the convergence of AI, consumer social, fintech, and gaming, fostering their growth and success.

Andreessen Horowitz

Partner

● Recruited by Garry Tan (Midas List #35) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit Co-Founder) to provide founder and operational support for 250+ companies, including Coinbase, Rippling, Instacart, Ro, and Standard Cognition
● Personally advised 140 portfolio companies on product, growth, P&L and talent, executed 3 turnarounds, and supported 7 M&As. Select companies include: AptDeco, Silo, Stacker, Papa, Truepill, Cointracker, Sentropy (acquired by Discord), Guilded.gg (acquired by Roblox), Voyage (acquired by Cruise)
● Sourced and conducted diligence on thousands of companies resulting in 27 successful early/seed-stage investments including Partiful, Clipboard Health, Curri, Apero Health, Routefusion, and OneBuild
● Established and led fundraising process resulting in >$900M of follow-on fundraising for ~45 portfolio companies. Spearheaded guidance/reviews, investor matchmaking, and red-team diligence. Companies include: Shelf Engine, Athelas, Fly.io, Zeus, Shogun, Torch, Horizon Blockchain Games, TRM Labs
● Led Initialized’s networking and portfolio recruiting events (e.g., discussion panel with former US Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, founder mental health summit, and thematic founder dinners)
● Started Initialized Internship Program, which supported all partners and staff

Initialized Capital

Brought in to lead new zero-to-one consumer products (e.g., messaging, fb.gg, and predecessor of Instagram Reels)

Facebook

Product Manager

● Raised $3.7M seed from 8VC (Joe Lonsdale), Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabois), Initialized Capital and angel investors
● Managed team of 25 to create AI scheduling assistant service and ML calendar analytics
● Scaled to 25,000 users across 1,000 companies, such as Dropbox, Kohl’s, Roche, BBVA, & Salesforce

Esper, Inc.

CEO / Co-Founder

● Worked under SBA Administrator Karen Mills, SBA Associate Administrator Sean Greene and US CTO Todd Park
● Recruited/managed 20+ tech leaders and engineers for the Presidential Innovation Fellows (later US Digital Service) program to work on government tech projects (e.g. RFP-EZ to help government contracting). Alumni of the program later contributed to 18F and fixed healthcare.gov
● Tripled commercialization rates for 60 managers across 11 agencies (incl. NIH & DoD), covering $2.8B of SBIR.gov grants (e.g., robotics, genetic therapy, advanced weaponry, space exploration)
● Represented the SBA on crowdfunding regulation, $25B SBIC, Startup America, and immigration legislation

US Small Business Administration

Senior Advisor / Director of Product

● Managed two cross-functional teams of ~30 FTEs
● Launched several features (e.g., buildables, expansions, digital goods) that directly contributed >$2M to FarmVille revenue, supporting Zynga’s $7B IPO
● Designed/implemented $6.6M/year savings plan for FarmVille customer support
● Led efforts in cross-promotion and diagnosed/resolved red-alerts for 250M MAU

Zynga

Senior Product Manager

● Built, grew, and monetized leading social music game with 3M+ users (850k monthly) globally
● Managed team of 13 and files two music tech patents
● Acquired by Zynga, delivering stock returns on $650k seed funding for angel investors
● CNET Webware winner and 2010 GDC Speaker

JamLegend

Co-founder / CEO

Published a report evaluating EPA’s $2M Evaluation program - "Competing to Improve: An Assessment of the “Improving Results” Competition," presented at 2006 American Evaluation Association in Portland, OR Oct. 30 - Nov. 5, 2006

Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Policy Economics and Innovation Intern (International Leadership Foundation Fellow)

● Created FantasyCongress.com, an online political game modeled after fantasy sports, with 80K users that was featured in NYTimes, LA Times, BBC, CNN and NPR
● Partnered with Politico.com to create Kingmaker (political predictions game) and Sunlight Foundation to create PoliQuiz (political quiz widget for Facebook app platform)

Fantasy Congress

Co-Founder

Traveled across the US to analyze regulations and estimate the cost of the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act on local communities for the Natural Resources and Environment division. Also, gave executive briefing on e-waste to Comptroller General and Managing Directors of GAO.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Research Analyst Intern

Drafted policy and candidate research for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Senator Salazar, used to create media content, press conferences, and talking points

Salazar for Senate Campaign

Press & Research Analyst

● Work study managing team of 30 student researchers
● Started nation's largest California Politics web archive, the "Google Books" of California state government, in partnership with the Claremont Colleges Digital Library
● Co-authored multiple papers in judicial redistricting reform, preservation of public lands, and local government survey research

Rose Institute of State and Local Government

Student Manager & Researcher

During high school, was multiple employee of month award winner, contributed to $1M days, and team was the 2nd best store in US despite being next to the Country Buffet and Dollar Store

Andrew Lee