Brina Lee
Scout at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Scout
2021 - Current
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Product Lead
2022 - 2024
Reimagined communication tools for millions of Roblox users, making it easier to connect, chat, and play together.
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
Raised $874,454,567.00 from E-magine Ventures.
CEO & Co-Founder
2019 - 2022
Acquired by Roblox. Building new ways to play games together.
Be together during your best gaming moments. Celebrate wins and laugh using emojis, sounds, video and voice chat in your games.
Raised $500,000.00 from NaHCO3.
Engineering Director
2015 - 2019
• Acquired by Salesforce • Founding EM that scaled the engineering organization to 70+ engineers • Lead EM for Quip's major products: Spreadsheets, Slides, Charts, Mobile, Data/Data Infra, NPS, Athena and Marketo Migrations, JIRA and Salesforce Record Live App • Worked on and founded our core values, compensation framework, and feedback structure • Built and refined interview loops for engineering managers, engineers, interns, and data scientists • Created our interviewer training programs • Contributed to roadmap, milestone, and staff planning processes • Spearheaded formalizing team roles, TL coaching, and personal growth frameworks • Developed cross-functional team communication channels • Executed annual Diversity Scholarship and coordinator for other diversity related events, like Grace Hopper Conference, Hackbright whiteboard sessions, and more
Software Engineer
2013 - 2015
• Instagram's First Female Engineer • Led, launched, and built Direct • Built the #1 requested feature on Instagram : Editing a Post • Cut cold start time by 30% by rebuilding the Notifications feed • Launched Ads on Instagram, including metrics pipeline and encrypting ads strings for better upgrade rates • Worked on Search and launched typeahead • Created and built Account Switching as a hack, which became the top most useful feature for media managers and business account holders. • Worked on NUX, Suggested Accounts, Explore, Profile, and a lot of growth related projects
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Raised $57,500,000.00 from Greylock, Thrive Capital, Baseline Ventures, DST Global, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital.
Software Engineer
2012 - 2012
• Worked on Timeline.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Software Engineer
2012 - 2012
Worked on Google Maps.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Interaction Designer
2010 - 2011
• Won Spring 2011 Hack Day reinventing Yahoo! Weather app which later shipped and became Yahoo’s highest rated (4.98 stars) and 2nd most downloaded app. Recognized with the 2013 Apple Design Award from Apple and the 2012 Yahoo Superstar Award. • Conceptualized and designed company-wide internal tools affecting the productivity and user experience of over 14,000 employees. • Evaluated and conducted user research studies through contextual inquiries, hallway testing and focus groups to identify the interactions of a user and prioritize such responses for subsequent projects. • Devised ideation techniques such as mind mapping, paper prototyping and napkin sketching to develop solid high-fidelity wireframes in Omni-Graffle. • Assisted front-end engineering using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Web Engineer
2007 - 2010
• Managed a team of interns to execute all marketing projects and campaigns targeting our Advance Planning and Scheduling Software customers, and Microsoft NAV Dynamics, SAGE, and SAP partners • Independently developed and designed PlanetTogether’s corporate and two partner websites in 3 months which resulted in an exceptional increased in lead generation (www.PlanetTogether.com) • Oversaw social networking and viral marketing campaigns bringing one of our co-websites (www.FactoryScheduling.com) to the number one organic spot in one week on Google Search Engine • Studied and implemented conventional Web Usability techniques for all of the company’s websites • Developed a plan to create a web application that connects our APS system to the Internet, allowing our manufacturing customers to share their production schedules with their customers