Roy Lee

Chungin "Roy" Lee is an American entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and CEO of Cluely, an artificial intelligence company based in New York City. Lee also founded Interview Coder, an AI tool that provides assistance in coding interviews.

Early life Lee, a Korean American, grew up in Suwanee, Georgia, graduating from Peachtree Ridge High School, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), the largest school system in Georgia.

He was accepted to Harvard University but the offer was rescinded due to disciplinary action. Lee attended Diablo Valley College and then briefly studied at Columbia University before facing suspension and dropping out.

Career While studying at Columbia University, Lee and cofounder Neel Shanmugam built Interview Coder, an artificial intelligence tool that "acts as a teleprompter, using your screen and audio to provide real-time analysis, questions, and notes."

Immediately after its launch, Cluely gained lots of traction through social media marketing, specifically with the tagline that it could "help you cheat on anything." According to The San Francisco Standard, the company pays for over 60 content creators and 700 video editors.

Controversies

College In his senior year of high school, Lee was accepted to Harvard University, but his offer was rescinded after getting caught sneaking out on a field trip in high school by a police officer. Afterward, he enrolled at Diablo Valley College with the intent to transfer to the University of California, Berkeley. Columbia University placed him on academic probation due to "a violation of academic integrity," after which he was suspended for one year, due to end in May 2026. Rather than wait, Lee dropped out of college to work on Cluely. By June 2025, however, all references to cheating on job interviews were removed from Cluely's website.

In March 2026, Lee acknowledged that he had previously misrepresented Cluely’s annual recurring revenue in a 2025 interview with TechCrunch. He stated on social media that the $7 million figure he had provided was inaccurate and issued a public retraction. Reporting by TechCrunch noted that the interview had been arranged through the company’s public relations representative rather than being an unsolicited inquiry.

Personal life Lee is of Korean descent.