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Aileen Lee

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  1. “Well, I was on the MA side, so it was a little different. It was more like analysis of business models and figuring out how things combined. And this”

    2016-10-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Aileen Lee, managing partner, Cowboy Ventures · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “So it was a great time to, I mean, I don't think I really understand what was going on at the time. But, and I had heard about venture capital then. But to be honest, it sounded like the coolest job. Like, you meet with entrepreneurs, you hear their stories, you try and pick through who's the right combination of market timing, opportunity, people. And then you just help them.”

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  3. “Well, gosh back then, I remember 3DO going public, our corporate finance, and like people who are still in the valley and doing an amazing job now were on the Morgan Stanley Tech team back then. So I worked for George Boutrose, Frank Quatron was running corporate financial. They're still going on.”

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  4. “At a young age. Yeah, actually, I was an MA analyst, and we did a lot of tech. I moved out to San Francisco for my second year and worked in a small tech group.”

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  5. “Yeah, but you had taken computing courses and coding courses So, I was an analyst at Morgan Stanley for two years after college.”

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  6. “Yeah, yeah. So I think that's probably the parallel to that is I now build the products. I don't ship them. I don't architect the products, but I work with and support the people who are kind of like the people I went with.”

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  7. “There's like a core first year, which is fortunately pass fail. So you take a year of math and you take chemistry, biology, eventually you program in C. I don't know if they still do that, but this back then, this is what you did. And so you kind of take two full years of math and science. But it was great. I worked with so, I mean, I hung out with and learned from so many smart people.”

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  8. “Unprepared most of those people. Oh my god, my freshman grew Oh, yeah, I was not. I remember my freshman year roommate took AP Physics in eighth grade.”

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  9. “No, I was completely underprepared, to be honest. But I just figured it'd be good for me. And I was fortunate that I had enough the grades and the test scores to get in. It definitely kicked my ass. I was not super prepared, but I really loved it. And I realized, like, I think, and maybe not at the time, but in retrospect, like it was just a great working with so many smart people who are just such curious minds.”

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  10. “Ah, not so much. Okay, I appreciate the sacrifices my dad made. But I actually went to a great public high school, but when I was growing up and I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took like AP history and AP English and AP European history and boys took calculus and physics. And I remember reading an article, this is in the late 80s, about scientific literacy and how girls actually were kind of like the stats were showing that girls were not pursuing careers or majors in quantitative or like STEM fields. And that kind of like pissed me off.”

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  11. “Yeah. So I kind of have my job or my career a little bit by accident. I'm a firstborn child of a Chinese immigrant family. I grew up on the East Coast and I have to admit, like, I did not grow up around technology. You know, I kind of grew up in an environment where my family was very oriented towards like, just, you know, get a good education, but like engineering.”

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