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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

United States500+ connectionsLinkedInUpdated 12 months ago

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

  1. Hustle Fund

    • Angel Investor | Angel Squad
      2025 - Present 路 6 mosCurrent
  2. 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Founder, Something new of AI
      2025 - 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

  3. Intro

    • Investor
      2024 - Present 路 1 yr 6 mosCurrent

      Please, continue my dream in building expert marketplace.

  4. Sundial

    • Investor W
      2023 - Present 路 2 yrs 6 mosCurrent
  5. 6 yrs 6 mos

    • ex-Googler
      2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent

      https://www.xoogler.co/

  6. Antler 路 Full-time

    • Founder in Residence
      2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosUnited StatesCurrent

      Antler accelerator that invested in 1700 startup. Skills: Investments 路 Entrepreneurship 路 Venture Capital

  7. Turing

    • Angel Investor
      2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent

      Future of hiring software engineer contractor with AI

  8. Airtable

    • Investor L -25%
      2022 - Present 路 3 yrs 6 mosCurrent
  9. Bolt

    • Investor
      2021 - 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

  10. Angel Investor 路 Freelance

    • Angel Investor, Principal Partner
      2021 - 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

  11. 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Founder & CEO, Recruiter
      Feb 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 Lead
      2022 - 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 & CEO
      2022 - 2023 路 1 yr

      Startup 1: expert network. Learned that don't compete with a16z's intro; invest instead.

  12. 6 yrs 6 mos

    • Software Engineer
      2019 - 2022 路 3 yrs

      馃洅 Google Shopping. AI, ML. Help build projects for 10B+ user to get $10M+ revenue

  13. DoorDash 路 Full-time

    • Software Engineer
      2018 - 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

  14. VMware 路 Full-time

    • Software Engineer
      2017 - 2018 路 1 yrSan Francisco Bay Area

      Shipped SaaS Dev Tool. Skills: Python 路 Java 路 Software Engineering 路 JavaScript

  15. Amazon 路 Internship

    • Software Engineering Intern
      2016 - 2016 路 Less than a yearSeattle, Washington, United States

      馃嵑 every friday

  16. Stealth Startup

    • Founder & CEO
      2015 - 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

  17. Private Tutoring

    • Co-founder & Private Tutor
      2012 - 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

  1. Wharton OnlineOnline Course, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies2008 - 2013

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  2. 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?"

  3. 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.

  4. founderscafe

    Learning from peer founders and established people like Mar Hershenson from Pear VC.

  5. Startup School OnlineAudit, Startup School

    Y Combinator's truth or cap

  6. 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

  7. University of California, BerkeleySummer school

    2/5馃У5 years 5 schools. Is this $5,000 worth it?

  8. 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

Skills

Other

Venture CapitalAnthropic ClaudeData ScienceChatGPTMicrosoft Visual Studio CodeAngel InvestingNode.jsHadoopSQLEntrepreneurshipSoftware DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)ElasticsearchBig DataReact.jsMySQLReactPythonJavaJavaScriptAirtableDatadogApache KafkaAngularjQueryVue.jsDjangoFlaskRubyMongoDBAWSPostmanLinkedInTwitchLangChainGitReact NativeSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)

At a glance

Experience12 years
Currently atHustle Fund
Based inUnited States
Studied atWharton Online
Roles19
Skills39
LanguagesEnglish 路 Hindi
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