AI x DevOps, Open source AI, Data infrastructure | Timothy Chen, General Partner at Essence VC

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Timothy Chen is the founder and general partner at Essence Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in data infrastructure and developer tools. Prior to Essence, he was the SVP of Engineering at Cosmos, a popular open source blockchain SDK. He cofounded Hyperpilot with Stanford Professor Christos Kozyrakis to disrupt the enterprise infrastructure space, which later exited to Cloudera. He was an early employee at Mesosphere and CloudFoundry. He is also active in the open source space as an Apache member.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Using LLMs for devops work
- Open source AI
- How to spot open source investment opportunities
- Data infrastructure opportunities
- AI infrastructure opportunities
- Security and privacy
Timothy's favorite book: Behind The Cloud (Author: Marc Benioff)
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi