Joseph Lee

Cofounder, LocateAI

Search every verified Joseph Lee interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Joseph Lee, cofounder and CEO of LocateAI, discussed the company’s origins and mission in a 2020 podcast episode. He said that he met cofounder Peter while they were computer science students at Stanford, and that the idea for the business emerged during the Techstars incubator program in Seattle, when friends who owned restaurants sought help with site selection for expanding along the West Coast. Lee stated that LocateAI’s mission has remained consistent: to make commercial real estate more data-driven. He described the company’s approach as using large datasets, including over 180,000 data points per location and 280 billion anonymous mobile GPS observations across three million sites, to analyze consumer behavior. He also noted that commercial real estate has been slower to adopt technology than residential real estate, and that machine learning is central to processing the volume of variables involved.