Philip Y Li
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Experience
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E8 Angels
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Investor
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May 2022 - Present
Seattle, Washington, United States E8 has been investing in early-stage Climate Tech startups since 2006. I also lead Bay Area Climate Investors (BACI), a local offshoot. Recent exits include ESS & Earthly Labs.
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Vectors Capital
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Investor
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2021 - 2023
San Francisco, California, United States Vectors is an seed-stage Climate Deep Tech fund. I review startups, source deals, participate in partner discussions, and build our theses for subsectors within energy, mobility, and built environment. Investments include Pow.bio, which accelerates plant-based meat & dairy development via scalable fermentation.
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Common
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United States
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Real Estate
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director of Product
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2021 - 2022
New York, New York, United States Common is the largest community-driven real estate operator, with a 22K-unit pipeline. I led the product team there, and transformed apt-hunting from a multi-week ordeal to a self-checkout experience.
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ujet.cx
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head of Product Integrations
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2020 - 2021
San Francisco, California, United States ujet is Google Cloud's white-label contact center provider. I incorporated AI/ML to enable seamless conversations, analytics, and payments.
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CityBldr
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP of Product
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2019 - 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States CityBldr helps enterprises locate, evaluate, & buy real estate faster, using geospatial AI. I led the product development team, and scaled our capabilities to serve $1B+ clients.
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Avenue Homes
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United States
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Real Estate
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP of Product
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2017 - 2019
Los Angeles, California, United States Avenue Homes is a data-driven urban infill home builder. I founded the product development team. We exploited real estate data in novel ways to revolutionize productivity in investment & household-level marketing.
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Medinas Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Advisor
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2018 - 2018
Berkeley, California, United States Medinas is a marketplace for hospitals & clinics to transact surplus & short-dated medical supplies, cutting healthcare cost for everyone.
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Boomtown Ventures
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Co-Founder
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2014 - 2017
San Francisco, California, United States Boomtown helps overseas investors invest in Bay Area real estate. We use geospatial approaches to source investment opportunities, then set up automated Airbnb operations for these investors.
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OhmConnect
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Advisor
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2014 - 2014
Oakland, California, United States OhmConnect helps consumers cut utility bills by 15% or more, by agreeing to turn off their appliances for the few hours a year when electric demand spikes on the grid.
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Ownerstation, Inc.
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Real Estate
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Co-founder & CEO
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2011 - 2014
San Francisco, California, United States OwnerStation was a Turbotax-style home listing service, helping users save tens of thousands while shortening time to market by 30+%.
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Suntech
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China
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Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
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300 - 400 Employee
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Director of Project Development
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2009 - 2010
San Francisco / Wuxi, China Suntech was the world’s largest solar company, with $3B in revenue. I shifted our group mandate to provide development financing & performance guarantee features for customer projects, as we learned financing mattered more than product features. This grew revenues even as banks stopped lending in the Great Recession.
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SunPower Corporation
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United States
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Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Cofounder of Utilities & Power Plants Business Unit
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2007 - 2009
Richmond, California, United States SunPower is the PayPal (or Fairchild) of Climate Tech, a vertically-integrated behemoth that continues to seed the startup ecosystem today. At SunPower, I co-founded a new power plant business unit with 2 colleagues. We grew our team from 3 to 30+ people. I scaled our GTM & analytics capabilities as SunPower transitioned from home roofs to $100M+ utility installations. My team: - Grew revenues from ~$75 to $340M. Projects by my team added ~$3B revenue in later years. - Developed… Show more SunPower is the PayPal (or Fairchild) of Climate Tech, a vertically-integrated behemoth that continues to seed the startup ecosystem today. At SunPower, I co-founded a new power plant business unit with 2 colleagues. We grew our team from 3 to 30+ people. I scaled our GTM & analytics capabilities as SunPower transitioned from home roofs to $100M+ utility installations. My team: - Grew revenues from ~$75 to $340M. Projects by my team added ~$3B revenue in later years. - Developed three projects that each was largest in US when built (links below). - Reported to President for utility-scale projects. Wrote RFP responses to win below projects.
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Senior Manager, Analytics
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2007 - 2007
I was initially hired to go after commercial rooftops. But we quickly seized upon a much larger opportunity (above).
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The Chinese Founders Fund
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China
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal
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2005 - 2007
Beijing / San Francisco There was a brief window of time when US-China cooperation flourished in the tech industry. I coached Chinese students at US universities to get US funding, then connected them to Chinese VCs who eagerly invested in Sand Hill funded companies. One of my founders started the famed VenturesLab after selling his company, seeding the then nascent Shenzhen tech scene. VenturesLab has experienced unicorn exits and is investing in Climate also.
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Nike
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Product
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2002 - 2002
Beaverton, Oregon, United States I defined vision & roadmap for new Digital Product Creation initiatives.
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Yahoo
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Manager, Growth & Security
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1999 - 2001
Sunnyvale, California, United States I managed launches for 10s of products across 24 countries, at time of greatest revenue growth. - Pioneered first A/B testing & optimized registration flow, boosting non-US sign-ups by 30%. - Drafted first written security policy, after building developer consensus on culture & practices. This convinced banks to share financial info with us.
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Philips
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Netherlands
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Frontend Developer
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1998 - 1998
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany I led the UX redesign of a bedside patient monitor. Working in Germany was a formative experience! HP used to have a medical division, subsequently spun off to Agilent then sold to Philips.
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Education
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Stanford University
Bachelor’s Degree, Human Biology -
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) -
University of California, Los Angeles
Master’s Degree, Computer Science -
Tsinghua University
Semester Abroad, Chinese -
London Business School
Semester Abroad, MBA -
University of California, Berkeley
UC Intercampus Exchange, EECS -
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Semester Abroad, MBA