SY Lee

Seung Yoon "SY" Lee is a serial entrepreneur and investor building infrastructure for the creative and data economies. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Story Protocol, an intellectual property infrastructure project backed by over $140M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Samsung. Story makes IP programmable, allowing creators and brands to license and remix work at internet scale, and has secured IP registrations from artists such as Justin Bieber and BTS.

He is also President and Co-founder of Poseidon, an open data platform for AI training incubated by Story and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which lets individuals contribute real-world audio, video, and sensor data while retaining IP ownership and receiving compensation.

Previously, SY founded Radish, the mobile serialized fiction app that pioneered serialized microtransactions in the US market. Following its $440M acquisition by Kakao Entertainment, he served as Kakao's Global Strategy Officer, overseeing international M&A and investment strategy.

SY was the first East Asian President of the Oxford Union, where he hosted speakers ranging from John McCain to Peter Thiel. He is a Trustee of the Asia Society, a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and was an inaugural member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.