Jennifer 8. Lee is an entrepreneur, documentary producer, journalist, seed investor and emoji activist. She has co-led an Angel List seed investment fund for Y Combinator, was a 2018 Fast Company Most Creative Person in Business, and is a Sundance Sloan fellow . She is co-founder and CEO of Plympton, a literary studio that innovates in digital publishing. Among their projects is Recovering the Classics, and a VR film based on George Saunders' Man Booker Prize winning novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.
Even though their dates of origin are millennia apart, the languages of Chinese and emoji share similarities that the average person might find surprising. These parallels offer an exciting new way to learn Chinese—and understand how emoji could potentially evolve over the long run.
