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Jeson Lee

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Jeson Lee

@thejesonlee

founder & gp @savant_vc, we help top founders explore & start new companies in physical ai through a powerful network, hardware lab & funding.

San Francisco

Joined July 2023

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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Dec 10, 2025
SILICON VALLEY IS IN A CRISIS. our best minds are being wasted on marginal AI wrappers & safe bets. so we built an epic summit for the bold ones choosing good quests. over 1,500 applied. we handpicked the top 250 to attend. this is Choose Good Quests 2025 by @join_savant 🔥
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Nov 3, 2025
the hardest part about being a male founder.. in my experience is finding a girlfriend / partner that understands the short term gains that we are forgoing and the long-term optimization game that we are playing. most women expect to have most dates paid for, their vacations
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Jul 21, 2025
SILICON VALLEY IS IN A CRISIS Our best minds are being wasted on marginal AI wrappers & safe bets. To combat that, we're announcing Choose Good Quests by @join_savant a conference to gather 500 exceptional talents to take on hard & important problems. November 6-7 in SF 👇👇
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 26, 2025
i went from desperately begging people signing my O1 recommendation letter just 5 years ago to signing over 10+ founder's O1 and EB1 letters now. feels good to be able to give back and help immigrant founders to build in America!!
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 12, 2025
HOW TO COLD DM INVESTORS [4 tips] Recently I have been receiving a ton of cold DM on X and Linkedin, pitching me their startups for investments. I responded to maybe less than 5% of them. Don't get me wrong, I cold DM-ed my way to where I am today and I'm a big fan of a good
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Dec 30, 2024
while most people have a great 2024 wrapped, this year is probably the worst year of my life > broke up with my gf > left the startup that I worked on for 10 months > felt completely lost in life, and was depressed > coped with it by drinking and going out to parties, spent a
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 13, 2025
number 1 tip for founder: don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something.
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 13, 2025
Because majority of the team at big VCs are made up of non-technical / career VC / MBA / PE folks who can’t build conviction without their spreadsheet.
first check $500k-1M pre-seed
@ajhodls
Oct 13, 2025
big VCs will always suck at preseed
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 5, 2025
First party that i attended in SF that actually has decent ratio!
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Sep 29, 2025
founders are skewing to a younger age. GPs it's time to promote your associate to partner or they will start their own fund.
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 28, 2025
will just leave it here
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Aug 27, 2025
Over 600 have already applied to the conference. Founders, researchers, engineers from places like Nvidia, Anduril, SpaceX, xAI & more. We are curating the highest signal room of talent building for civilization & choosing good quests. Spots are limited. Apply now.
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Jul 21, 2025
SILICON VALLEY IS IN A CRISIS Our best minds are being wasted on marginal AI wrappers & safe bets. To combat that, we're announcing Choose Good Quests by @join_savant a conference to gather 500 exceptional talents to take on hard & important problems. November 6-7 in SF 👇👇
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 18, 2024
build your research ideas over 8 weeks, you in? joinsavant.com
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Jeson Lee
@thejesonlee
Oct 7, 2025
Four months ago, I had zero connections in deep tech. Today, I’m hosting SF’s most stacked deep-tech lineup at Choose Good Quests (Nov 6–7). Here’s how it happened 🧵👇
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