Allen Lee

Allen Lee

Work Experience

2024 — Now
YTTL
2023 — 2024
Taipei

An ai pilot enables drones to autonomously execute vertical-use case tasks.

2022 — 2023

Messenger for Virtual World (failed)

2019 — 2021
Founder at Failed inc
  • Ghost: An AI-powered podcast player (auto-skips ads)

  • Wormhole: AR camera for book

  • Pensieve: OpenAI-CLIP-powered visual search engine on macOS

2017 — 2018
Beijing, Taipei

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 & engineering 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)

431.9M views on Giphy, a month-over-month growth rate of 55%, and 20K daily active users across the US, Taiwan, and Japan.

2013 — 2015
Taipei

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

2012 — 2013
Security staff & Chief assistant at Air Force
Taipei

Security staff and personal assistant to the former commander of Airforce in Taiwan (later Secretary of Defense).

Side Projects

Ongoing
Homie

iMessage/Call your homie on iPhone homescreen

2022
Classic

iPod Classic Simulator on iOS (Spotify only)

2020
Too Early (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)

2014

婦幼犯罪熱點提醒、無人機巡航 at G0V Hacking Conference with Milu and Kevin

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