Jason Lee is an entrepreneur who builds companies that transform the lives of underserved communities
As an entrepreneur, Jason has founded companies for people who have historically been overlooked by traditional systems. In 2015, he founded DailyPay and pioneered Earned Wage Access, an entirely new category of financial technology that provides hourly workers control over when they receive their earned pay. He grew DailyPay into a $2 billion company and exited in 2022. Later that year, he founded Salt Labs, creating a new way for frontline workers to build long-term value and wealth from their work. Salt Labs was acquired by Chime in 2024 for $173 million. At Chime, Jason became a member of Chime’s executive leadership team that led its $11 billion IPO in 2025.
Today, Jason is the Founder and CEO of Minim Science, a healthcare and life sciences company inventing new food safety technology and serving the needs of the food-allergy community.
Across each of his companies, Jason has pursued the same fundamental idea: technology should not simply make life better for those who already have the most but rather it should expand access, opportunity, and security for people who have historically had the least.
Watch Jason give his vision for building technology for financially underserved communities.
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