# Jerry Liu

> Jerry Liu is the co-founder and CEO of LlamaIndex, the open-source data framework that became essential infrastructure for connecting large language models to enterprise data. What started as a weekend side project in November 2022 - an indexing tool he built to feed his own data into GPT-3 - grew into a company with $46.5M in total funding, 600,000+ monthly downloads, and clients including Salesforce, KPMG, and Carlyle. A Princeton computer science graduate who published GAN research as an undergrad, Liu moved from Quora's feed ranking team to Uber's autonomous vehicle research labs before co-founding LlamaIndex with former Uber colleague Simon Suo in early 2023.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at LlamaIndex
- **Organizations:** LlamaIndex, Princeton University, Quora, Uber ATG, Robust Intelligence
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S.E. in Computer Science, Certificate in Finance, Princeton University
- **Known for:** Forbes 30 Under 30 (2024) alongside co-founder Simon Suo, Built LlamaIndex from a solo open-source project to 600,000+ monthly downloads, Raised $46.5M total funding including $19M Series A from Norwest, Greylock, Databricks, KPMG

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Graduated Princeton summa cum laude (GPA 3.97); Outstanding Senior Thesis Award for GAN research under Prof. Thomas Funkhouser; published research at 3DV 2017
- **2017-2018** — Machine Learning Engineer at Quora, working on feed ranking and recommendation systems
- **2018-2021** — AI Resident then Research Scientist at Uber ATG (autonomous vehicle division), advancing learning-based compression and joint prediction/planning research
- **2021-2023** — ML Engineering Manager at Robust Intelligence, leading the ML monitoring team and building AI Firewall for detecting AI failures
- **2022-11** — Released GPT Index (later renamed LlamaIndex) as open-source project on November 9, 2022
- **2023-03** — Formally co-founded LlamaIndex company with Simon Suo
- **2023-06** — Announced company publicly with $8.5M seed funding led by Greylock
- **2024** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30; LlamaIndex surpasses 600K monthly downloads
- **2024-02** — Launched LlamaCloud and LlamaParse for managed document parsing and ingestion
- **2025-03** — Raised $19M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners with strategic investment from Databricks and KPMG
- **2025-05** — Databricks and KPMG announced minority equity stakes in LlamaIndex

## Achievements

- Forbes 30 Under 30 (2024) alongside co-founder Simon Suo
- Built LlamaIndex from a solo open-source project to 600,000+ monthly downloads
- Raised $46.5M total funding including $19M Series A from Norwest, Greylock, Databricks, KPMG
- Published research paper 'Interactive 3D Modeling with a Generative Adversarial Network' at 3DV 2017
- Won Outstanding Senior Thesis Award at Princeton University
- Graduated Princeton summa cum laude with 3.97 GPA
- Grew LlamaIndex to enterprise clients including Salesforce, KPMG, and Carlyle
- 52+ GitHub repositories; core maintainer of run-llama/llama_index
- Day-1 partnership with Google for Gemini integration at LlamaIndex launch
- Speaker at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Databricks and KPMG announced minority equity stakes in LlamaIndex, deepening strategic partnerships
- **2025-03** — LlamaIndex raised $19M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners; total funding reaches $46.5M
- **2025-03** — Launched LlamaCloud, a managed cloud service for building unstructured data AI agents
- **2025-05** — Jerry presented 'Vibe Coding' demo with KPMG at the KPMG US Tech and Innovation Symposium
- **2025** — Speaking at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025

## Links

- Website: https://www.jerry.wtf/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-liu-64390071
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jerryjliu0
- GitHub: https://github.com/jerryjliu

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