If someone was having some surgery that was going to put them out for three months, it’s something you should consider, with a man or a woman. What is the impact of having the C.E.O. or visionary out for three months? – Aileen Lee
In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant. – Aileen Lee
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us. – Aileen Lee
Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web. – Aileen Lee
Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what’s worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the velvet rope helped build viral growth for initially invite-only launches like Gmail, Gilt Groupe, Spotify, and Turntable.fm. – Aileen Lee
Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies. – Aileen Lee
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference. – Aileen Lee
We’re in this incredible age where new brands are making people’s lives easier, more convenient, more personalized. – Aileen Lee
I think it’s embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms. – Aileen Lee
If you’re a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you. – Aileen Lee
History suggests the 2010s will give rise to a super-unicorn or two that reflect the key tech wave of the decade, the mobile web. – Aileen Lee
Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce. – Aileen Lee
Immigrants play a huge role in the founding and value creation of today’s tech companies. We wonder how much more value could be created if it were easier to get a work visa. – Aileen Lee
Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. – Aileen Lee
Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results. – Aileen Lee
I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong. – Aileen Lee
You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they’re really good at. – Aileen Lee
I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time – kids didn’t have cellphones then – and you knew everyone in the town. – Aileen Lee
Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking. – Aileen Lee
Starting a company and being a founder is really hard, and most companies fail. You really have to have a deep commitment and belief in it and be willing to see it through many ups and downs. – Aileen Lee
What is social proof? Put simply, it’s the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It’s also known as informational social influence. – Aileen Lee
There’s an opportunity to make your board – and your company – smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender. – Aileen Lee
I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world. – Aileen Lee