JL

Jess Lee

Partner at Sequoia Capital / Co-Founder & CEO of Polyvore

United States

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2016

    Seed and early stage investor in Ironclad, Maven Clinic, Wonolo, Mos.com, Otter, Newness, The Wing, Pace Group.

2017

  • Co-founder and Janitor

    2017

    All Raise (allraise.org) is a non-profit dedicated to diversity in tech. Our goal is to improve the representation of women founders and funders. I co-captain one of our founder initiatives, Female Founder Office Hours (femalefounder.org).

2015 - 2016

  • VP Product, Lifestyle

    2015 - 2016

    Polyvore was acquired by Yahoo in 2015 and our team became the Yahoo Lifestyle team. Our product portfolio included Polyvore, Product Ads, Yahoo View, and some cool secret projects.

2008 - 2016

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2008 - 2016

    Polyvore is a shopping site & app where you can give & get styling ideas. Over the past few years I've done a little bit of everything, ranging from product management to writing code to finding our office space to ad sales to washing dishes. I started as a user who wrote in to complain about the product, then got hired as the first PM, then became VP Product, then CEO in 2012. I am delighted every day by the amazing people I work with and our incredibly talented user community. Much love.

2004 - 2008

  • Product Manager

    2006 - 2008

    As the product manager for Google Maps, I worked closely with the engineering teams to design & launch new features. I also helped coordinate efforts between the different teams spread out across 13 different offices. I did a lot of UI design and product design. Some of the launches I worked on include My Maps, draggable driving direction, local reviews, user profile pages, embeddable maps, multipoint driving directions, real time traffic, photos of businesses, and geocoding in the Maps API.

  • Associate Product Manager

    2004 - 2006

    Google's APM program takes fresh out of school computer science grads and turns them into PMs.

2004 - 2004

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2004 - 2004

    Summer internship at the NTT Docomo Multimedia Research Lab. Developed an OpenGL graphics application.