Michael Wee
Strategy Lead at Eigen Labs
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Product Lead
2024 - Current
EigenLabs offers access to Ethereum's staked capital and validator set, supporting restaking, unstaking, and AVS management.
Venture Partner
2024
Managing Partner
2022 - 2024
Product Manager
2021 - 2022
First member of the Coinbase Incubations team working closely with Brian Armstrong, Sanchan Saxena, and Surojit Chatterjee to originate new ideas (0 to 1) and grow emerging products (1 to n): • PM, Coinbase Commerce (1 to n) • Founding PM, Trust and Safety (0 to 1)
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
Startup Founder
2019 - 2021
Built, launched, and iterated different product ideas in Enterprise and Consumer
Partner
2016 - 2019
AI / Enterprise deals: Figma, Replit, Anyscale, Sisu, Golden, Freenome. Crypto deals: Anchorage, dYdX, Dapper Labs, Dfinity. Board observer seats: Udacity, DigitalOcean, Forward Networks, Mesosphere. Investments in enterprise infrastructure and applications, AI, web3, and emerging consumer platforms (augmented/virtual reality, self-driving cars), working closely with Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Chris Dixon, Martin Casado, and Peter Levine.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Full Stack Engineer and Data Scientist
2014 - 2016
• Worked on the data science team building out projections services, baseline methods, and model evaluation pipelines for Current Year month-over-month data. • Worked on the Data Platform, building smart data ingestion, processing, and storage platforms and tools for mapping, manipulating, and exploring customer data. Multidimensional input data includes Transactions Lines, General Ledgers and Charts of Accounts. Led the design and implementation of an initiative to unify our new Data Platform system with existing backend systems and front-end reporting tools. • Built a City Comparisons application, a tool that allows city managers to visually compare and analyze spending against a set of similar cities. Users can also overlay additional data sources such as census metrics as well as scale and manipulate the data to bring context to the comparison. • Worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, Spark, PostgreSQL. Experience with Javascript & React
OpenGov is a digital cloud software provider that helps local governments and state agencies run government operations.
Raised $178,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Cox Enterprises, Alumni Ventures, Castor Ventures and Lauder Partners.
Software Engineering Intern
2013 - 2013
Built a trigger-based recommendation system for Intuit's QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop offerings to recommend add-on products such as Payments, Payroll, and third party offerings to customers for greater delight.
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Research Assistant
2013 - 2013
Worked on StreetBump in collaboration with the City of Boston to classify street defects based on crowdsourced accelerometer data from smartphones in order to expedite maintenance of roads. Collected test data, conducted data exploration, and machine learning.
Research Assistant
2013 - 2013
Research in machine learning with Patrick Winston.
Program Manager Intern
2012 - 2012
Spearheaded the Microsoft Bing Indexserve team's mobile strategy to improve performance, efficiency, and relevance. I trained an experimental ranker using location data, which showed a net improvement in relevance over the ranker in production. This led Bing shift towards integrating more mobile-specific features in various segments of its index.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.