Allen Lee

Allen Lee

About

Hey, I’m Allen Lee, an engineer and founder based in Taipei (soon sf).

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Horus

An AI pilot for UAVs

2022 — 2023

Messenger for Virtual World

2017 — 2018
Beijing, Taipei

Innovating Vogue, GQ, WIRED, Traveler.
I provided product strategies and technical advice directly to the president of Condé Nast China Sophia Liao. I also helped her oversee the whole digital product team when she took over.

2015 — 2017
Cupertino, Taipei

A social app startup backed by YouTube cofounder Steve
Chen. Main product: Pamily (TikTok for pets)

Accomplishment:

  • Leveraged ugc gifs to generate 431.9M views on Giphy Platform
  • MOM: 55%
  • DAU: 200K in US, Taiwan and JP
2013 — 2015
Taipei

Built the first autonomous intelligent drones to skywrite Chinese letters in the sky

Side Projects

Ongoing

iMessage/Call your homie on iPhone homescreen

2022
Classic

iPod Classic Simulator on iOS (Spotify only)

2021
OpenAI-CLIP-powered visual search engine on macOS
2020
A Venture (sold to 7 Ventures)

Most followed vc publication on Medium (beat a16z, Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed…)

2019

Inspired by Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 シェルのゴースト), I believe the future of collective intelligence is a composable knowledge base network. (community fork)

2018
iOS AR cam for books

Writing

2023

Knowledge can be copied, while secrets give you an unbeatable advantage

Contact

Twitter