Apparently this. Moving from Shanghai at that time would not have been a straight forward process.
Lee was born in the Ivory Coast to parents who had moved there from Shanghai. He spent most of his childhood there, but in his early teens, he moved to the United States. He attended the
Lawrenceville School before graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. and masters degree in Computer Science.
After college, Lee worked as a software engineer at Kana Communications, Guidewire Software, and Google before starting his crypto career.