Asian Tech Collective

Mark Lee’s entrepreneurial journey began long before his first startup. Born in Taipei and raised between Taiwan and Los Angeles, Mark grew up watching his father build a manufacturing business from the ground up, an experience that shaped his belief in innovation, hard work, and building companies with a family-first culture. After meeting his co-founders at MIT more than 30 years ago, Mark went on to launch two successful startups and help build Splashtop into one of the leading remote acce

In this conversation with Homan Yuen, Managing Partner at Keymaker, he reflects on the long movement from science to startups to investing, and on what he learned along the way about building companies, evaluating technology, and navigating a career that did not unfold in a straight line. What emerges is a career shaped not by a single leap but by a series of thoughtful recalibrations.

On March 12, Asian Tech Collective hosted our Lunar New Year Banquet at Palette Tea Garden in San Mateo, bringing together 70 VCs, LPs, and founders for a night of great food and even better conversation. The dinner featured a banquet-style spread of refined dim sum, standout seafood and wok dishes, and signature dishes like shaking beef, millionaire fried rice, and Peking duck.