Dan Lee at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Co-founder and CEO of Nooks, since its start in 2020 |
Co-founders | Nikhil Cheerla (CTO) and Rohan Suri (CPO), friends from Stanford |
Education | Studied AI at Stanford |
Before Nooks | Machine learning at Scale AI and research at Cerebras |
Recognition | Forbes 30 Under 30, AI, 2025 list (Forbes) |
Age | Not published as a birth date; he was 17 as a 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar |
Net worth | No published estimate |
dan@nooks.in, published by him in 2023 | |
X | No account found |
Nooks CEO email address: how to reach Dan Lee
Dan Lee published his address himself. In a March 2023 Hacker News hiring thread he wrote: “I’m the CEO of Nooks, and I’d love to chat! If you’re interested, email me: dan [at] nooks.in” (Hacker News). Nooks’ website has since moved to nooks.ai, but staff still email from nooks.in. Nooks staff email from the company’s original domain, nooks.in, not nooks.ai: most use {first}.{last}@nooks.in, such as maya.chen@nooks.in for a fictional Maya Chen, while the founders and early staff use a bare first name, maya@nooks.in.
He doesn’t use X; LinkedIn is where he posts, and Nooks links his profile from his author page.
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
dan@nooks.in | Published by him in March 2023 | |
Linked from his Nooks author page | ||
Nooks blog | Launch and funding letters |
Nooks email address pattern
Nooks staff email from the company’s original domain, nooks.in, not nooks.ai: most use {first}.{last}@nooks.in, such as maya.chen@nooks.in for a fictional Maya Chen, while the founders and early staff use a bare first name, maya@nooks.in.
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | Who uses it | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{first}.{last}@nooks.in | maya.chen@nooks.in | Most staff, especially those hired since 2024 | Current, standard |
{first}@nooks.in | maya@nooks.in | The founders and early staff | Current, early hires |
{f}.{last}@nooks.in | m.chen@nooks.in | A few addresses | Rare |
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
Nov 4, 2026 | Nooks secures $500 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund and launches Node (Nooks) |
Aug 2026 | Nooks acquires FullyRamped |
Feb 2026 | Launches Agent Workspace and AI Sequencing |
Dec 2024 | Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in AI |
Oct 24, 2024 | $43 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins (Nooks) |
Apr 23, 2024 | $22 million Series A (Nooks) |
Mar 2023 | About $1 million ARR and 100 companies’ sales teams on Nooks, he writes |
Early 2022 | Nooks turns from a virtual office into a virtual sales floor |
Mid-2020 | Starts building Nooks at Stanford as a virtual classroom |
Before 2020 | Machine learning at Scale AI and research at Cerebras |
2017 | Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar, at 17 (Society for Science) |
How Dan Lee built Nooks
Lee started hacking on Nooks in mid-2020, early in the pandemic, as a virtual space for Stanford classes; the computer science department used it for office hours. “2020 was the virtual classroom … 2021 was when we started thinking about virtual office,” he says, and at the beginning of 2022 “the virtual sales floor” (GTMnow). Sales teams had turned out to be the most engaged users, calling together in the same room.
His co-founders, Nikhil Cheerla and Rohan Suri, were close friends from Stanford who “all studied AI and did research together” (Unite.AI). Nooks went from about $1 million ARR in March 2023 to more than 2,000 customers in 2026, growing about three times a year, and in November 2026 secured $500 million to hire and build agents (Nooks).
Dan Lee’s net worth and age
Neither has been published. Nooks is private; its last reported equity valuation was $285 million, at its Series B in October 2024. Lee was 17 when he was named a Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar in 2017, for a plasma physics project, which puts him in his mid-20s in 2026 by our calculation.
Nooks’ co-founders
Nikhil Cheerla, CTO, leads engineering and applied AI research. He holds a BS and MS in computer science from Stanford and worked on Tesla Autopilot, Lyft’s self-driving perception team and at Cerebras (Nooks). Rohan Suri, CPO, leads product and design; he ran Nooks’ first sales development team himself, and made Forbes 30 Under 30 at 17 for a medical startup (Nooks).
In his own words
“In a year, a rep without agents will look as outdated as a rep without a phone.”
— Dan Lee, November 4, 2026 (Nooks)
“AI will make companies want more salespeople, not fewer.”
— Dan Lee, November 4, 2026
“Reps will always be selling, because if your competitor is using human reps and you’re not, guess who’s gonna win?”
— Dan Lee, February 24, 2026 (GTMnow)
“AI can’t really close for you, at least not yet.”
— Dan Lee, February 24, 2026
“We intentionally call them ‘assistants’ not ‘agents’ because assistants empower reps; they don’t replace them.”
— Dan Lee, October 24, 2024 (Nooks)
Nooks’ leadership
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Dan Lee | Co-founder and CEO |
Nikhil Cheerla | Co-founder and CTO |
Rohan Suri | Co-founder and chief product officer |
Hannah Willson | Chief revenue officer since March 2025 (Nooks) |
Loreal Lynch | Chief marketing officer since August 2026, formerly CMO of Jasper (Nooks) |
Full company profile, including funding and Node: Nooks in 2026: revenue, valuation, funding, CEO.
