Evan Lee
Founder in AI "Agent" | ex-Google ($10M+ ARR), DoorDash, Yale | Angel Investor (+150%) | 1M views Humble LinkedIn Content Creator | Software Engineer | Free Startup Advisor
About Evan
Building next gen AI-native copilot startup. 8+ years as engineer. ex-Google, Yale CS.
- Founders: STOP making "AI agent" "AI copilot" and START making AI that WORKS. I'd use, I'd pay.
- yeah this prob not gonna work, but focus on learning
Thanks for reading. If I don't reply your DM/email, try add "馃憖馃槶GM" to get my attention.
Experience
- Angel Investor | Angel Squad2025 - Present 路 6 mosCurrent
- Founder, Something new of AI2025 - Present 路 6 mosCurrent
exploring new stuff. Enable human to fight AI in efficiency (Human + AI > aI Agent) - Defend you from all the AI sales Spam. - Cluely knock off (AI copilot/cheat in meetings), but Open Source - AI SEO* Looking for: - smart cofounder - smart investor - smart employee - smart users
- Investor2024 - Present 路 1 yr 6 mosCurrent
Please, continue my dream in building expert marketplace.
- Investor W2023 - Present 路 2 yrs 6 mosCurrent
- ex-Googler2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent
https://www.xoogler.co/
- Founder in Residence2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosUnited StatesCurrent
Antler accelerator that invested in 1700 startup. Skills: Investments 路 Entrepreneurship 路 Venture Capital
- Angel Investor2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent
Future of hiring software engineer contractor with AI
- Investor L -25%2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent
- Investor2021 - Present 路 4 yrs 6 mosCurrent
- Joined in Series D at $6B valuation, now at $11B after Series E. Skills: Angel Investing 路 Investments 路 Venture Capital The fallout after Bolt鈥檚 aggressive fundraising attempt has been wild | TechCrunch
- Angel Investor, Principal Partner2021 - Present 路 4 yrs 6 mosSan Francisco Bay AreaCurrent
- Joined angel rounds / party rounds of 20+ startups, like Bolt, JOKR, Roofstock, invest in same rounds with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Khosla, Tiger Global Management, Softbank Vision Fund, GGV Skills: Angel Investing 路 Investments 路 Entrepreneurship 路 Venture Capital
- Founder & CEO, RecruiterFeb 2025 - Jun 2025 路 5 mos
Enable every good recruiters to build AI agents to do their work. Help recruiter do their job with AI Copilot. "Cursor for Recruiting". <- Was: "Help startup hiring engineers w/ AI agent" - there is no AI agent in 2025, so stop pretending. A ghost in the "AI Hiring & Interview Arm Race". Other projects: - Read 100 resume in 1 minute and rating - Job post into search query into candidate - Candidate into rating - Automated outreach - Interview Copilot Nobody really pays for it, that's it.
- Cofounder & CTO, Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead2022 - 2025 路 3 yrs
Startup 2: E-commerce + LLM AI chatbot. Cofounded with Y-Combinator grade serial partner. Learned that GTM was more important than pedigree or AI.
- Founder & CEO2022 - 2023 路 1 yr
Startup 1: expert network. Learned that don't compete with a16z's intro; invest instead.
- Software Engineer2019 - 2022 路 3 yrs
馃洅 Google Shopping. AI, ML. Help build projects for 10B+ user to get $10M+ revenue
- Software Engineer2018 - 2019 路 1 yr
YC S13. PearX. Growth Hacker Team. Joined at $4B Series E, IPO (NYSE: DASH) at $72B (14x). Help grew 10M+ users at total $100M+ CLV. Skills: Machine Learning 路 Python 路 Java 路 Software Engineering 路 JavaScript
- Software Engineer2017 - 2018 路 1 yrSan Francisco Bay Area
Shipped SaaS Dev Tool. Skills: Python 路 Java 路 Software Engineering 路 JavaScript
- Software Engineering Intern2016 - 2016 路 Less than a yearSeattle, Washington, United States
馃嵑 every friday
- Founder & CEO2015 - 2016 路 1 yr
- Turned my toy person script into a profitable "app startup" from college my dorm within a month of ideation with Python. Made friends with rich and broke schoolmates
- Co-founder & Private Tutor2012 - 2012 路 Less than a year
Top 0.2% in high school, tutored at 10x local average wage per hour, helped my students win in exams. Physics, Chem, Math.
Education
- Wharton OnlineOnline Course, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies2008 - 2013
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- University of PittsburghBachelor of Science - BS (Dropout), Computer Science
Grade: 4.0 Activities and societies: Dean's list 3/5馃У5 years 5 schools. I like the library and Cathedral but people would ask me "why not go Carnegie Mellon?"
- xoogler.co
Learning about startup from ex-googler folks like founders of Warmly (YC S20), Coscreen (acq. Datadog), Spate (YC S18), Kahoona.io (raised $4M), and VCs like Augie Ilag from Sequoia Capital and Bryan Kim from a16z.
- founderscafe
Learning from peer founders and established people like Mar Hershenson from Pear VC.
- Startup School OnlineAudit, Startup School
Y Combinator's truth or cap
- Yale UniversityMaster, Computer Science
Grade: 3.87 Activities and societies: Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Teaching Fellow 5/5馃У The end of the journey -- "5 Cities, 5 Schools in 5 Years" Skills: Apache Kafka 路 Machine Learning
- University of California, BerkeleySummer school
2/5馃У5 years 5 schools. Is this $5,000 worth it?
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor, Highest Distinction, Computer Science
Grade: 3.91 Activities and societies: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Web Development, Teaching Assistant 4/5馃У5 years 5 schools - won 2016 CW Gear Award (1% acceptance rate - only 2 awarded each year) Skills: Python, Java, Javascript, C++, React, Angular, jQuery, Node.js, Vue.js, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Spring, PostgresSQL, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, elasticsearch, AWS DevOps, postman, API, Apache ZooKeeper Skills: Machine Learning
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