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Aileen Lee
American investor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aileen Lee (born 1970) is a U.S. venture capital angel investor and co-founder[2] of Cowboy Ventures.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
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Born | 1970 (age 53ā54)[1] New York City, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School |
Known for | Co-founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures |
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Lee coined the often-used Silicon Valley term unicorn in a TechCrunch article "Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar Startups" as profiled in The New York Times. A unicorn is generally defined as a privately held startup that has a $1 billion valuation or more ā something rare (like a unicorn).[11]