Jerry Chen

Jerry Chen is a General Partner at Greylock, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he has invested since 2013. A former VMware executive who scaled the company from 250 to 15,000+ employees, Jerry coined both the term 'VDI' (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and the widely-adopted 'Systems of Intelligence' framework — a model explaining how AI and proprietary data create durable competitive moats in enterprise software. He led Greylock's early bet on Docker, sits on the board of Bluesky, and backed foundational AI tools like LlamaIndex. Defined by intellectual rigor, deep operator empathy, and a habit of asking one more question when everyone else has already stopped.