Phil Chen is a founding partner at Race Capital and managing partner emeritus at Presence Capital who simultaneously served as HTC's Chief Decentralized Officer, where he created both the HTC Vive VR headset and HTC Exodus blockchain phone before moving into venture capital. He focuses on investing in decentralization and Web3 infrastructure at the hardware level, treating smartphones as nodes in decentralized networks and backing foundational platforms like his early 2016 investment in Zoom based on video as core infrastructure. Phil Chen is a founding partner at Race Capital and managing partner emeritus at Presence Capital who simultaneously served as HTC's Chief Decentralized Officer, where he created both the HTC Vive VR headset and HTC Exodus blockchain phone before moving into venture capital. He focuses on investing in decentralization and Web3 infrastructure at the hardware level, treating smartphones as nodes in decentralized networks and backing foundational platforms like his early 2016 investment in Zoom based on video as core infrastructure.