Jess Lee

Jess Lee (born 1982) is an American venture capitalist. She is a partner at Sequoia Capital and the former chief executive officer of Polyvore, which she joined as co-founder and first employee.

Early life Lee lived in Hong Kong until the age of 17, when she graduated from Hong Kong International School, then moved to California to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer science at Stanford University, though she had initially been interested in attending art school.

Career In 2004, Lee was recruited into Google's associate product manager (APM) program, which had been founded and was then still led by Marissa Mayer. Lee started work on Google's shopping engine Froogle Lee initially wrote code for Polyvore but later started to handle social media, hiring, and finding new locations for the office. becoming its first female partner in the United States in 44 years of operation. Hired at age 33, Lee became one of Sequoia's youngest partners.

Personal life She currently resides in Mountain View, California.