United States
I'm looking to partner with and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs. More on me & Sequoia at: https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/jess-lee/ I love designing products that delight passionate communities of users. At Polyvore, I helped build an amazing team and culture, which was rated one of the top 20 workplaces in tech. The story of how I became CEO of Polyvore is a bit unusual: http://www.wired.com/2013/07/ap_polyvore/all/
I'm an Early Stage Partner and Chief Product Officer. I help run Arc (Sequoia's pre-seed and seed stage program), Scouts (angel program), and our Ecosystem Fund (fund of funds). I oversee our engineering, product, design, and data science teams. Board member or observer at Ironclad, Maven Clinic, Squint, Freed, Captions, Pendulum Therapeutics, Wonolo, Mos, Flagship, Otter.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Google's APM program takes fresh out of school computer science grads and turns them into PMs.