4x founder

Benjamin South Lee

Co-founder at Variant • bensouth.com

Co-founder

Variant· Fall 2024 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2024Co-founder· Variant

Founder · since 2014

Company

Variant

Role

Co-Founder, CEO (YC F24)

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Variant

Creative intelligence

Fall 2024

Experience

Career

Variant
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO (YC F24) · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Aave Labs
Sr. Vice President, Product & Design · 2022 – 2024
2022
Sonar
Co-founder
Co-founder, CEO (YC S20, Acquired by Aave) · San Francisco, CA · 2020 – 2022
2020
Postmates Inc.
Vice President, Product Design · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2020
2018
Postmates Inc.
Director of Design, Consumer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2018
2017
Bold.co (Acquired by Postmates)
Co-founder
Co-founder, CPO (Acquired by Postmates) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2017
2015
Medium
Product Designer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015
2015
Secret, Inc.
Founder
Principal Product Designer, Founding Designer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2015
2014
Crunchyroll
Product Design Lead · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2014
2013
Crunchyroll, Inc.
Product Designer / Frontend Engineer · 2012 – 2013
2012

Bio

Building Variant. Formerly founded two companies which were acquired by Postmates, where I was VP of Product Design, and Avara, where I was SVP of Product and Design. Experiments: bensouth.com