Kate Lee

About

“The piece has been played a million times. I hear an average of everyone. Where’s YOU?”I spent fifteen formative years as a classical pianist, taking hours to perfect a single note. Not to play it faster or louder. But to discover the one sound that matched how I wanted the audience to feel.Today, we live in a world where we build apps overnight and spin up AI agents by the weekend. It's like we grew infinite arms to hammer the keys. Faster. Louder. Words, ideas, code — they're all becoming commodity. But intent cannot be automated. There’s a sound that belongs to you, and you’ve been made too busy to hear it.That's why I'm building Takuma, a production studio that uses software as a creative medium to unleash societal imaginations. We partner with nonprofits and foundations to push their missions further than they thought possible, and arm their teams to operate with AI as their extension.Born in Milan, raised in Hong Kong. Led product at HappyCow to help vegans find food. Helped Techstars founders discover customer intent. Northwestern and Booth alum.If my ideas resonate, say hello@takuma.ai and let’s find a time to jam!

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