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Jess Lee
@jesskah
Partner . Cofounder & Janitor . CEO & Cofounder . PM . Stanford CS. HK, Manga, Drawing, Bacon.
Silicon Valley, CAjessyoko.comJoined April 2007

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A deeper look inside the wonderful mind of and the team. Helping kids pay for college.
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"The cost of college is like flight tickets. You can be sitting here paying $200...and the person next to you is paying $0." Founder Amira Yahyaoui says @mosdotcom's job is to help students be the person paying $0. Here's how ⬇️
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m starting a company. I’m building something for teams that have found themselves hankering for more of that “we’re all in this together feeling” lately. Full scoop on what I’m dreaming up: constellate.team
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We’re thrilled to introduce the latest cohort for Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders. 🧵 👇 sequoiacap.com/article/vision
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Loved chatting with at about all things Arc - our application process, program details, and most importantly the companies.
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Sequoia received thousands of applications for its school for founders, Arc. Here's an exclusive look at the nine startups that made the final cut. businessinsider.com/startups-admit
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Great energy and chemistry at yesterday's Arc kickoff! Meet our first class:
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We’re thrilled to introduce the latest cohort for Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders. 🧵 👇 sequoiacap.com/article/vision
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Thank you and Bloomberg for having me on to talk about Sequoia Arc, the market, Roe v Wade, , and more. Full clip at bloomberg.com/news/videos/20
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$1 million plus a 7-week course on how to build a category-defining company. Sequoia Capital partner Jess Lee talks to @emilychangtv about the firm's new seed-stage catalyst. trib.al/zcL2bRY
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Thank you for pioneering and paving the way. Hope one day you feel so secure in your massive successes (ahem, Shopify, Livongo, kind of a big deal :-) that you can share the full story.
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Today is the last day of my 16th year as a VC The only way Ive survived this long as a Black Man in Venture has been to prioritize success over happiness even in the toughest of times Reading this, you may not understand, but this whole thing is not setup for us to succeed #16
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Thanks for a great chat! Loved talking about customer obsession, product mindset, and community at . 🎧 to learn about Sequoia Arc (applications open now seq.vc/arc) and which characters would be 🤣
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My conversation with @jesskah Jess is an investing partner at Sequoia but also runs their product effort The twin role makes her unique among past guests I loved talking product and investing with Jess (A must listen for Marvel fans) joincolossus.com/episodes/87558
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Arc connects founders with ’s powerful network for mentorship and support, through regular 1:1s with our partners and fellow founders, office hours, peer boards and Sequoia community dinners. Our inaugural European cohort visited in Stockholm for their field trip.
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Arc Americas is 9/12-10/28, with Weeks 1 & 7 in Sequoia’s Menlo office, a field trip in Week 4, the rest remote. You receive $1M funding and learn topics like Customers, Product, GTM, Culture, Business. We blend lectures, case studies, hands-on practice and a group field trip.
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Congrats Maven on being #19 on 's #Disruptor50. Maven fights the good fight for women's and family health. A lot of investing is about making contrarian bets. It’s crazy that women would be a contrarian bet, but here we are.
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George is the best. Founders of Europe, is a product strategist, deep thinker, has seen high growth startups from the inside , a kind human. Love working with him on w/ . Congrats on 30 Under 30!forbes.com/sites/hanktuck
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Grateful to be included in this years Forbes 30 under 30 Europe List alongside many great former colleagues and friends. Excited for what's to come @sequoia in 2022! #ForbesUnder30
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Love this thread from of lessons learned in his 15 years at . Honored to be included as one of the stories. It took me 2-3 years to figure out how to be the best version of myself as an investor, and I’m still iterating all the time.
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3/ A lesson from @jesskah: Become the Best Version of Yourself, Not of Somebody Else loom.com/share/2f1f8926
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Capital is commodity, company building help is not. We’ve distilled 5 decades of working with great founders into core foundational concepts in Company Design. Iterated with 100+ founders at 80 companies to get here. More on why now from :
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We will kick off Arc with a European cohort, 5/23-7/15. 1st week in London, 8th week in Menlo Park, virtual in between. Plus a field trip to to see what greatness looks like. US applications will open in the summer and the US cohort kicks off in fall.
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Announcing Arc by , a catalyst for outlier seed stage founders. $1M + 8 weeks of Company Design programming, taught by Sequoia partners and our network of operators and founders. Learn to build for the next decade, not the next quarter. Apply:
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Are you a PM who combines the best of fun consumer delight with structured fintech thinking? Do you want to create the next generation of banking? Do you want to work with an exceptional team and for a founder that has revolutionized a country? Join Mos!
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Featured role of the day: Product Manager at @mosdotcom "This role will be Mos' first PM, and have the opportunity to heavily shape Mos' product. We've seen incredibly rapid growth (hit #3 on the app store in just 2 months) and just raised our Series B." lennysjobs.com/jobs/86e76563-
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