Dave Lee was San Francisco correspondent for the Financial Times, primarily covering ecommerce and the gig economy. His main companies of interest were Amazon, Uber and Airbnb. He was also a regular contributor to FT Magazine, where he wrote about societal impacts of new technologies. He has covered the technology industry for more than a decade, joining the FT in 2020 having previously been the BBC’s Silicon Valley correspondent. He graduated from the University of Lincoln.