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Restless. Irreverent. Greylock GP. @GreylockVC

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Joined March 2008
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Jerry Chen
1 year
I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names. 😜
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I’ve updated my blog “The New Moats: Systems of Intelligence” from six years ago in light of all the changes and advances in AI over the past few years. I took a “red pen” to highlight what has changed.
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5 years
Reading all the IPO S-1s....
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In 2006 with the launch of AWS began the cloud infra era. This followed the dawn of SaaS led by Salesforce and Workday. For the past 15 years we saw the platform shift to cloud. We are now seeing a new generation of cloud only companies
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1/ I've been thinking lately about the different types of risk that VCs underwrite as investors. No framework is perfect but as an investor we need to judge each investment independently. For example, a security company will have less market risk than a crypto company.
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9 years
I finally put my "Unit of Value" framework into a blog. A startup's unit of value is key to scaling GTM.
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10 months
My partners and I are excited to continue our mission at @GreylockVC to partner with the most ambitious founders creating new categories and redefining how we use and interact with the technology around us. If you are looking to build something amazing in AI, cloud, data, or
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Greylock
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1/ With a long history of partnering w/ founders from idea to IPO, we @GreylockVC are excited to announce 2 new updates to advance this mission: 1/ Fund 17, our new $1B early-stage fund 2/ Edge, a bespoke program to help founders initiate new companies
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“Small world. Long career.” Pay it forward. Treat others with respect. Conduct your business with integrity.
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3 years
1/ I don't blog often but when I do, I try to create interesting content! Today @GreylockVC is launching a new project, #CastlesInTheCloud , mapping out the services of the Big 3 clouds, AWS, Azure, GCP, and the startups competing against them
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7 years
#TheNewMoats my thoughts on Systems of Intelligence, AI powered apps as a valuable business model @GreylockVC
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9 years
Great post by @anshublog on "the stack fallacy" which explains why incumbents fail to innovate in new markets.
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6 years
Friends. Family. Health. Everything else is a rounding error.
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10 months
Sending love and strength to our friends in 🇮🇱
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Greylock
10 months
We are shocked and deeply saddened by the heinous acts of terror committed against the Israeli people. Our hearts are with the victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with Israel and our friends, founders, and teams in the country.
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. @llama_index Is building the data framework for large language models. It unleashes the power of LLMs on enterprise data including PDFs, databases, apps, videos, and other docs.
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7 years
I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names 😜 and
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9 years
You can't solve complexity with more complexity. Product design goal should be to simplify everything.
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5 years
I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names. 😜
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Jerry Chen
3 years
I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names. 😜
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8 years
My slides from Greyscale on the current state of enterprise software.
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Jerry Chen
7 years
Pick an initial market with your “tip of the spear” product & then make sure your spear is sharp. Focus on a use case and make sure you win
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7 years
Our investment in @blendlabsinc ! Watch them change consumer lending & build the definitive cloud for banking!
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20 years ago I did an internship for VMware and was lucky enough to return and spend almost a decade shipping product with some of the most brilliant people I have ever worked with. Today marks an end to this part of the VMware story but the people and impact of the company
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VMware
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We are excited to announce the completion of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, marking another important step forward in our efforts to build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. Follow @Broadcom for further updates and read more here:
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I don't blog often, but when I do, I buy the domain names. 😜
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Jerry Chen
3 years
Excited to deepen our commitment to work with great founders from inception to IPO!
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Greylock
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1/ We at @GreylockVC are excited to announce we’ve raised $500M dedicated to seed investing. This is the industry’s largest pool of venture capital dedicated to backing founders at day one.
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Thank you.
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7 years
In awe of the strength of @susan_ho @niniane @leitihsu & thx @ReedAlbergotti for reporting the story.
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Jerry Chen
5 years
Excited to announce @GreylockVC 's investment in @chronosphereio founded by @roskilli & @martin_c_mao who created @m3db_io at Uber to build cloud monitoring and metrics for the most demanding users that need deep insights, high scale and reliability.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
2 years
It’s time for GenX to flex.
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8/ Uncertainty is the hardest risk to underwrite but if things break your way then you will be rewarded by it because the rewards for a company unlocking a new market or changing consumer behavior can be huge.
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6 years
Hottest deal on Sand Hill today! cc @SiliconHBO
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9 months
Happy birthday to @llama_index ! It’s been amazing to watch how the community has made it easier to build AI applications! Thank you @disiok & @jerryjliu0 and the entire community!
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LlamaIndex 🦙
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It's our birthday! 🎂 LlamaIndex is 1 year old, and to celebrate we have a look back on our blog at twelve milestones from the last year:
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5 years
Construction is emerging as the next great vertical for startup disruption. @rhumbix had a record 2018 and is looking ahead to 2019! CC @bayareawriter
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Crunchbase News
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Investor Momentum Builds For Construction Tech
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6 years
Congratulations @saranormous ! I couldn’t be more excited and honored to call Sarah my @GreylockVC Partner!
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3 years
1/ Open Source vs Cloud Castles. Open source has been one of the better strategies when competing against Big Cloud. #CastlesInTheCloud
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Jerry Chen
5 years
“Be generous with success and greedy with failure.” An adage that can’t be repeated enough. Share your wins. Own your losses. Leadership is sharing the good and shielding the bad. I am grateful for all those who shared their wins with me and I hope I can pay it forward.
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Jerry Chen
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Over 17 years ago, @raghuraghuram took a chance and gave me my first job as a product manager with the logic that “a PM is all about getting shit done.” I was lucky enough to do some great work as part of the early VMW team but I still owe him a few weekly status reports 😜
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Raghu Raghuram
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I am honored and thrilled to lead @VMware as the next CEO. We have an enormous opportunity in front of us and are uniquely poised to lead the multi-cloud computing era. http:/www.vmware.com/go/newceo
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3 years
Gonna spend the long weekend trying to spin out AWS #Infinidash and lead the Series A... or the open source version of #infinidash
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2 years
Evening walk.
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Jerry Chen
4 years
The team that happy hours together, stays together! Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! Cheers from the @GreylockVC team!
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Elisa Schreiber ⚡️
4 years
WFH Happy Hour with @GreylockVC team! Stay safe everyone
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Jerry Chen
7 years
For my bday tonight, two of my favorite things: bourbon and powerpoint...wait, something's not right.
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Jerry Chen
3 years
A little behinds the scenes preview of my talk with @dvellante @furrier on @theCUBE talking all things AWS Reinvent! #awsreinvent2021
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Jerry Chen
8 years
If you are an Amazon Prime member you can now get 6 months free of the Washington Post Digital subscription.
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Jerry Chen
9 years
2009 "What's your cloud story?" 2012 "What's your mobile story?" 2016 "What's your developer story?"
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8 years
Founders and investors talk a lot about "product market fit" but sometimes we really should be talking about "product GO TO MARKET fit."
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Jerry Chen
5 years
The next phase of the consumerization of IT is the where customer & employee experiences are transformed by chat, AI & mobile into instant action. Companies like @askspoke in help desk, @gladly in customer support, & @blendlabsinc in consumer lending.
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Jerry Chen
2 years
Congrats to @roskilli @martin_c_mao and the @chronosphereio team on the company's Chronoversary! Hard to believe it started with two founders and a business plan just 3 years ago to the industry changing company it is today! PS Who writes business plans?! 😜
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Jerry Chen
8 years
Three wise men: @reidhoffman @johnolilly @chrisyeh talking about blitzscaling at #Greyscale
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Jerry Chen
6 years
My partner @saranormous is *the* one to watch!
@GreylockVC
Greylock
6 years
Greylock's @saranormous is named to the @WSJ VC Women to Watch: Ten Women Fueling Tomorrow's Disruptive Startups.
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Jerry Chen
6 years
11/ Different investors will be comfortable taking different types of risk so make sure as a founder you match with the right partner. /FIN
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Jerry Chen
9 years
If your company's tech is IP deep then sell a product, if there isn't much IP but it's operationally hard at scale, run a service.
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6 years
VMware's corporate story has been anything but ordinary but it has become one of the defining technology companies over the past 20 years. @Forbes @AntoineGara story here
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Jerry Chen
6 years
The team at @RocksetCloud is building a severless, schemaless, SQL data engine. It's been a privilege to work with such a talented team from the very beginning! More about @GreylockVC 's seed and series A investment in Rockset here:
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Jerry Chen
5 years
I think my 15 year old niece just “OK Boomer’d” me and I didn’t know if it was worth trying to explain that I’m actually Gen X.
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Jerry Chen
2 years
VMware was a big part of my career. I spent almost a decade there learning from some the best engineers and product leaders. I hope it continues to grow within Broadcom.
@nytimesbusiness
NYT Business
2 years
Broadcom, the semiconductor giant, said it has agreed to buy the software company VMware in a transaction valued at $61 billion. It would be the world’s second-biggest proposed acquisition this year, according to data from Dealogic.
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9 years
First collect the dots and then connect the dots.
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Jerry Chen
12 years
Since it's Burning Man this weekend, you should be able to get a dinner reservation at any place in the Mission.
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Jerry Chen
8 years
Blitzscaling class from Stanford by @reidhoffman @johnolilly @chrisyeh now available as a series of podcasts.
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Jerry Chen
5 years
Two huge milestones for @blendlabsinc ! First, Ann Mather joins the Blend board. Ann is the former CFO of Pixar and currently on the boards of Alphabet, Netflix, and AirBnB. Second, Blend raises $130M from Temasek and General Atlantic!
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9 years
Behind the scenes at Alphabet HQ talking about the company launch: http://t.co/8NddwVsMEm
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Jerry Chen
1 year
Congrats to @joe_hellerstein winner of the 2023 Sigmod Innovations award! It’s been a pleasure to know Joe as a @GreylockVC backed founder, @UCBerkeley professor, and a friend. Congratulations again!
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6 years
3/ The second risk is Probabilities, or quantifiable risk. e.g. What is the probability you can build the tech, acquire users, hire a team, beat the competition? Different investors can look at the same company and come up with different probabilities and thus will differ.
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Jerry Chen
9 years
The singularity is here: @minecraft in @oculus managing @Docker .
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Jerry Chen
10 years
The more OpenStack tries to compete with VMware, the less it competes with Amazon. Focus on the future, not the past.
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8 years
There is "starting-up" and then there is "scaling-up." @HarvardBiz and @reidhoffman talk Blitzscaling.
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Jerry Chen
7 years
Whiskey. Neat.
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8 years
A company should be IP deep or Go-To-Market strong. Ideally both, but strength in one can build a defensive moat.
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8 years
Thanks to all the founders & LPs that make @GreylockVC great. Fund 15 now looking for category defining companies!
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6 years
5/ Uncertainties are often new markets, market expansion, or involve a consumer behavior change. Can you go from replacing taxis to redefining the future of all transportation? Is ephemeral messaging an enduring trend? Many consumer companies have high uncertainty risk.
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Jerry Chen
9 years
Congrats @solomonstre @golubbe & the @docker ecosystem pioneering #DDI Developer Defined Infrastructure! @GreylockVC
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Jerry Chen
4 years
Thank you to all the founders that invite us to be part of their amazing stories.
@GreylockVC
Greylock
4 years
Announcing Greylock's Fund 16 - a billion dollar fund, focused on consumer and enterprise tech at earliest stages. Grateful to the founders who invite us to share their journey; it’s our privilege to work with them
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2/ The first risk is Possibility. Is this idea for a company or product even possible? Do I believe the founder's vision or not? e.g. Self-driving cars? Strangers renting my sofa? Running my apps in someone else's data center? Find an investor that believes in your vision.
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Jerry Chen
8 years
When ppl say something is over is when things get interesting. My partner @joshelman on why mobile is still exciting
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Jerry Chen
7 years
I am lucky to have one of the best as my @GreylockVC partner, @chandna @alexrkonrad
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Jerry Chen
5 years
Baby Yoda versus Baby Groot is the question of our generation.
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Jerry Chen
1 year
we're searching for our next Greylock incubation! we have a deep track record of partnering with builders at their earliest stages with incubations like @Workday @PaloAltoNtwks @Neeva @inflectionAI @magicaltome + many more. pls reach out if you're exploring something new!
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Lucky to work w Scott Aronson again! Scott is our newest Exec In Residence to help our companies with GTM strategy.
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Jerry Chen
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Me using SnapChat is like watching my dad trying to program the VCR.
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Jerry Chen
10 years
California Winter 2014. We will rebuild! h/t @acatambay http://t.co/kR38QfgGkF
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Jerry Chen
7 years
Our talent teams are our secret weapons :)
@Kazanjy
Peter Kazanjy
7 years
Want to know the power of VC platform that delivers? I steered a founder towards @GreylockVC today because of @dan_portillo 's talent team.
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“The real question isn’t capital. The real question is company building ” - @reidhoffman , the Master of Scale!
@SquawkCNBC
Squawk Box
3 years
"Everyone knows technology is going to be the future," says @ReidHoffman on @GreylockVC 's new $500M fund for seed investing. "There's so much capital. The real question is not capital. The real question is company building."
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Incredibly excited about @GreylockVC @saranormous 's investment in @hi_cleo ! Cleo helps new and expecting parents succeed in the workplace!
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3 years
@bett_yu
Betty Yu
3 years
Thank you all for standing by me. Hate must stop. No level or magnitude of racism is acceptable, and it will continue to be pervasive, whether overtly or closeted, unless we all speak out against it. @KPIXtv @KenBastidaKPIX @ElizabethKPIX @AndreaKPIX
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Jerry Chen
3 years
Always great to catch up with @emilychangtv and talk cloud infrastructure! #CastlesInTheCloud #infrastructureWeek
@technology
Bloomberg Technology
3 years
What are the up-and-coming castles in the "cloud?" Greylock's Jerry Chen gives @emilychangtv the 360 degree view of the startups and giants in cloud technology
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9 years
AWS' IoT platform is significantly more comprehensive than Salesforce & FB/Parse's IoT offerings. Your move Azure and Google.
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Jerry Chen
5 years
TFW you show up to a board meeting in the same shirt as ⁦ @RMBXdrew ⁩, and he looks better in it than you do. cc ⁦ @TaylorStitch #whoworeitbest
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Jerry Chen
2 years
Still rooting for the team!
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Jerry Chen
6 years
7/ Most enterprise investment decisions center on quantifiable risk because most startups are going after known markets and/or known problems, but with new solutions. The investment decision is what amount of risk will you underwrite, and at what price?
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Jerry Chen
4 years
Both 60% alcohol
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4 years
very true. it's a medical necessity right now.
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Jerry Chen
7 years
This thread, this tweet storm--Thanks @saranormous
@saranormous
sarah guo // conviction
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1/ Remember that when people speak up about harassment, they're risking a great deal.
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Jerry Chen
5 years
Beyond excited to share the great news @saammotamedi becoming our newest GP!
@GreylockVC
Greylock
5 years
Thrilled to announce that @saammotamedi is our newest General Partner! We know that he will be a great partner to entrepreneurs building the next generation of foundational tech companies in data, ML, applied AI, application software, & cybersecurity.
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world AWS was cheap." --DevOps Verbal Kint
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