Jeffrey Lee

I have spent my entire career (thusfar) at the intersection of Asia and Silicon Valley, across both technology and finance. I was an early founding team member at Northern Light, a leading early-stage venture fund seeded by Greylock and NEA, which became one of the defining investors of China's technology rise over the past 20 years. Before that, I ran business development and strategic marketing at Wavics, a Korea-founded chip startup acquired by what became Avago Technologies, itself now the core of Broadcom. My career began with a summer internship at Jardine Fleming covering Korea Telecom, Samsung, and Hutchison Telecom, followed by 6 months at Salomon Smith Barney advising on North Asia TMT, before leaving during the 1997 financial crisis. I was also caught up in helping friends with startups in the big Internet boom and co-founded two early stage Korea-focused venture firms, Discovery Ventures and Newton Technology Partners. It’s at Newton where I met Wavics.

What occupies me now is a mission rooted in that long arc of pattern recognition: the people being misunderstood, the failures of context switching, and the value of asking “why am I wrong.” I believe technology is not just changing industries but the fabric of how societies understand themselves. Not incidentally, part of that mission is a deeply held belief that Korean culture and Korean talent are becoming part of the tech and societal fabric of America and, accordingly, the rest of the world (parochially, I know) in ways that will define the next 100 years.

I am also fortunate to meet founders who will be part of this transformation, which appears to be once in a civilization.

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