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Nozomu Tsunoda and the value of a bad first draft
Before LegalOn reached thousands of customers, Nozomu Tsunoda built a contract editor his co-founder could not use. Learning to start again became part of the job.
33 USA knows anime travels. The marketing has to travel, too.
A Los Angeles agency is helping Japanese entertainment find its audience abroad. Its most useful lesson began with an English-language post that failed to connect.
Jess Lee
Jess Lee is a Partner at Sequoia Capital - the firm's first female investing partner in the US in its 44-year history. Before that, she was co-founder and CEO of Polyvore, the social fashion platform she helped grow to 20+ million monthly users before selling to Yahoo for ~$230 million in 2015. A Stanford CS grad who once paid tuition by selling manga art on eBay, Lee brings a rare blend of deep product instinct (forged at Google Maps), community-building obsession, and operator credibility to early-stage investing. She also co-founded All Raise, the nonprofit dedicated to getting more women into venture capital and founding roles.