
Albert Lee
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Albert Lee
@albertlee
Co-founder @myfitnesspal, former SVP @underarmour, board @skillestapp, @Cal and @BerkeleyHaas alum, golf nerd


















“License & Acquihire“ style deals over past 2 years: Windsurf → Google ($2.4B) Groq → Nvidia (~$20B) Scale AI → Meta (~$14.3B for 49%) Character AI → Google (~$2.7B) Inflection AI → Microsoft (~$650M) Covariant → Amazon (~$400M) Adept → Amazon (undisclosed)



TIL UC Berkeley has 7 parking spots reserved exclusively for Nobel laureates who get free parking for life. Winning a Nobel to get a parking spot... makes sense to me as a motivation.



I used to phrase it as: Startup CEOs can’t share their troubles with their employees because they’ll quit. They can’t share with their investors because they’ll get fired. And they can’t share with their spouse because she will say “You never should have quit that job at the phone company!”






