This is just great. I have a couple of mutual friends with Jess Lee from my time at Stanford, and no one from back in the day thought she was exactly the type

This is just great. I have a couple of mutual friends with Jess Lee from my time at Stanford, and no one from back in the day thought she was exactly the type to become a venture capitalist. The rest of her story is probably more well-publicized: choosing a PM job at Google as opposed to an engineering job at Intuit, turning from a No. 1 Polyvore fan to its CEO who led its acquisition by Yahoo! And now, she's the first (honestly, I am surprised that she's the first) US investing partner at Sequoia. There are many things I am not particularly fond of about Silicon Valley, but her well-deserved ascent in the valley embodies so much of the positive qualities about Silicon Valley.