Founder
Jennifer 8. Lee
CEO of @Plympton. Film Producer Cochair of WEF Global Futures Council on media. Emoji activist. Former @BrightUp York Times reporter. Seed investor via YC Demo Day Funds. Bestselling author. Applied math at @Harvard University.
CEO of @Plympton. Film Producer Cochair of WEF Global Futures Council on media. Emoji activist. Former @BrightUp York Times reporter. Seed investor via YC Demo Day Funds. Bestselling author. Applied math at @Harvard University.
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Experience
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Employee
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Projects
The quest to understand the man behind the chicken.
Producer · Documentary with a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Premiered at 2014 TriBeCa Film Festival. Distributed by IFC. Directed by Ian… · More Cheney.
Raised money. A lot of it is my research.
Raised money. A lot of it is my research.
Conference celebrating all things emoji.
Co-founder · Conceived of concept, sold sponsorships, helped shape the program, marketing.
Conference around emoji with emoji film festival,… · More emoji hackathon. Attracted over 1,000 people over a weekend. Sponsors included GE, Adobe, ESPN, Timberland, Finland and Panda Express. Extensive coverage in NYTimes, WSJ, Buzzfeed, Time, Los Angeles Times.
Conference around emoji with emoji film festival,… · More emoji hackathon. Attracted over 1,000 people over a weekend. Sponsors included GE, Adobe, ESPN, Timberland, Finland and Panda Express. Extensive coverage in NYTimes, WSJ, Buzzfeed, Time, Los Angeles Times.
Education
About
Achievements
One of the youngest full reporters ever hired by The New York Times. Wrote a bestselling book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," which showed fortune cookies were originally Japanese. Survived Colbert enough my appearance is used by PR firms to train clients.
Started at the ground floor of Upworthy. Helped scale Hacks/Hackers globally to 10,000 members with chapters on 6 continents. Co-created NewsFoo with O'Reilly Media and Google. Co-created NewsDiffs, now archived by the Library of Congress, at the MIT Mozilla Hackathon.
People recognize me on the streets in foreign countries from my TED talk. Was dubbed a "conceptual scoop artist" by NPR, in part for coining term "man date." An Esquire magazine "Women We Love." Negotiated six- and seven- figure deals. Serve on boards of Nieman Foundation, Hacks/Hackers, Center for Public Integrity, Asian American Writers Workshop, Awesome Foundation, New York Public Library's Young Lions committee.
Throw awesome and epic parties.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Loonshots
What's your favorite non-business book?
Guns, Germs and Steel