Jerry Chen

Restless. Irreverent. Greylock GP. @GreylockVC

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names. 😜 https://t.co/gTVDlQEInF https://t.co/tRY468GETJ https://t.co/aaKDtpAXxM https://t.co/SwZgbILyyZ https://t.co/b6pPs2WU4s https://t.co/AgOtn4muzq https://t.co/d1A5eCs5kj https://t.co/XFu4ZFghv1

[Sophia Luo @sophia_luo_]

A few weeks ago we hosted another @GreylockVC casino night cruise, this time in New York, bringing together interns from across AI and quant finance.

This one was especially meaningful to me. Every summer during college, I interned in New York in quantitative finance. I remember how formative those internships were, not just because of the work, but because of the people I met. It's fun to now help create those kinds of moments for the next generation of students.

In attendance were interns from companies including @cognition, @modal, @tryramp, @JaneStreetGroup, @WeAreHRT, @Citadel, and @twosigma. @SethGRosenberg and I want to thank everyone who came!

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

“The problem is that code has become cheaper while patience has become more expensive”

[Sara Du @saradu]

https://t.co/Y585Q3rend

[Vinoth Chandar @byte_array]

Backed by production data: up to 15x higher latency pulling the same workload from S3 vs. GCS. Same access pattern. The gap traces to HTTP, not the storage systems.

[Greylock Partners @GreylockVC]

“The biggest mistake you can make in AI is underestimating the size of the wave or treating it as a binary outcome.” @saammotamedi on @tbpn

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

@brettberson Thank you my friend! 🙏

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

We are very lucky to get to work with this next generation of companies!

[Saam Motamedi @saammotamedi]

Today, we are announcing Greylock 18, a new $1.5 billion early-stage venture fund.

A company begins when a founder sees a future others cannot yet see. There is no team, product, or revenue. Only a deep insight and the courage to start.

Being early is lonely work. For years, being right can look exactly like being wrong. Greylock has spent more than six decades partnering with founders through those earliest moments to build enduring companies. Airbnb, Facebook, and Palo Alto Networks all began as improbable ideas driven by founders determined to make them inevitable.

AI has made the map blank again. Every part of the economy is now open to reinvention. We believe many of the defining AI companies do not yet exist.

We invest selectively and partner deeply with the founders we back. Each Greylock partner makes only one or two new investments a year because the work demands depth. We bring the full attention, network, and resources of Greylock to every partnership.

We are builders backing outliers. Founders have their choice of investor. When a founder chooses to partner with Greylock, we understand the weight of that choice and the profound responsibility that comes with it. We seek to be a founder’s first believer and long-term partner.

Greylock 18 is our commitment to what does not exist yet.

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

@mzaveri Thank you MZ 🙏

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

@bipulsinha @saammotamedi @chandna @GreylockVC Thank you Bipul 🙏

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

@maxgazor @saammotamedi @chandna Thanks Max

[Bipul Sinha @bipulsinha]

Congratulations @saammotamedi, @chandna, @jerrychen and the broader @GreylockVC team!

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

@saammotamedi LFG 🚀

[Saam Motamedi @saammotamedi]

Today, we are announcing Greylock 18, a new $1.5 billion early-stage venture fund.

A company begins when a founder sees a future others cannot yet see. There is no team, product, or revenue. Only a deep insight and the courage to start.

Being early is lonely work. For years, being right can look exactly like being wrong. Greylock has spent more than six decades partnering with founders through those earliest moments to build enduring companies. Airbnb, Facebook, and Palo Alto Networks all began as improbable ideas driven by founders determined to make them inevitable.

AI has made the map blank again. Every part of the economy is now open to reinvention. We believe many of the defining AI companies do not yet exist.

We invest selectively and partner deeply with the founders we back. Each Greylock partner makes only one or two new investments a year because the work demands depth. We bring the full attention, network, and resources of Greylock to every partnership.

We are builders backing outliers. Founders have their choice of investor. When a founder chooses to partner with Greylock, we understand the weight of that choice and the profound responsibility that comes with it. We seek to be a founder’s first believer and long-term partner.

Greylock 18 is our commitment to what does not exist yet.

[ara @0x_ara]

learned a lot working w goated researchers from @berkeley_ai + support of @LaudeInstitute !

[Sophia Luo @sophia_luo_]

A few weeks ago we @GreylockVC hosted a group of interns from across the AI ecosystem for a casino night cruise in SF.

One of the best parts of venture is getting a front-row seat to the next generation of builders. In attendance were interns from companies like @OpenAI, @cognition, @DecagonAI, Long Lake, @Netic_AI, @appliedcompute, @databricks, @Etched, @modal, @harvey, @togethercompute, @cartesia, and more. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

[Richard Artoul @richardartoul]

My family moved to America 18 years ago and have been blessed with opportunity and fortune beyond our wildest dreams. Opportunities that would have never been available to us back home.

Happy 4th of July to the greatest country on Earth 🇺🇸 🦅!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Jerry Chen @jerrychen]

Thank you Om for being a wonderful human. You will be missed.
https://t.co/wzX3Tqmqts

[Mamoon Hamid @mamoonha]

You were one of a kind.

You lived with heart and soul. You wrote with heart and soul. But more than anything, you had an uncanny ability to make everyone you met feel special.

You were a best friend to so many because you showed up. You listened. You cared. You gave so much of yourself to others.

The world lost one of its best. May you rest in peace, my friend.

Love you. I’ll miss you dearly more than words can say.

https://t.co/gIWyeYDbUv

[Saam Motamedi @saammotamedi]

Congratulations to @clattner_llvm, @iamtimdavis, and the entire @Modular team on today's announcement that Qualcomm has agreed to acquire the company for ~$4 billion. We at @GreylockVC have been fortunate to back Chris, Tim, and the team since their seed round, and it's been a privilege to partner with them from the start.

Chris and Tim are an incredibly rare combination of world-class systems thinking and product taste, that can take deep technical complexity and make it highly usable for millions of developers. When they started Modular a little over four years ago, they had a prescient thesis that AI needed an open platform to runs models at state-of-the-art performance across heterogeneous hardware, without requiring developers to rewrite anything. They delivered it with Mojo and MAX, and now they'll accelerate that mission by pairing their software with Qualcomm's silicon leadership.

We're grateful to have invested alongside @davemuni @GVteam, @deepnishar @generalcatalyst, and Chris Ré, and we're excited for this important milestone for Modular.

[Modular @Modular]

Today, Modular announced an agreement to be acquired by @Qualcomm.

We founded Modular to build a unified compute platform for the world, and unlock a more open, efficient, and hardware-independent future for AI. With Qualcomm, we can bring that vision to more developers, enterprises, and hardware platforms— faster.

Modular co-founder and CEO @clattner_llvm explains our continued commitment to our mission: https://t.co/5lCOxbOW97