Everybody seems to conveniently forget that Slack’s sales motion is what forced them to sell in the first place. Teams was eating their lunch. Going to take some time to get thousands of AEs to adopt a new product. $600M ARR at acquisition and $3B now
One of the biggest challenges in building AI for healthcare is being able to accurately de-identify patient records. I'm excited to share an open weight and data solution that is SOTA for open source 🧵
github.com/ewhauser/outis
huggingface.co/ewhauser/outi…
outis ships with a local REST + WebSocket server: detect, redact or replace PHI in text, JSON, CSV, XML and files. Replacement is patient-consistent, shifts dates while keeping intervals, and offers TIDE 2.0-style realistic surrogates, with IDs that never collide.
Ok; I realize this is sort of petty but if you are going to close all outside contributions it would be nice if you gave a shout out to the person who provided the original implementation github.com/vercel/eve/pull/5…
Added this in celld-operator. You’ll need my light celld fork to run it. Previews are single AZ and heavily bin packed so they are cheap. Also added support for cloning live Durable Objects into the preview env
Today we’re launching Worker Previews. Each Git branch gets a production-like place to run, with its own code, configuration, URL, observability, and state. cfl.re/4hgSuxf
Built an operator for managing your celld fleets on Kubernetes: github.com/ewhauser/celld-op…. If you want to use persistent volumes, you’ll need a small celld patch from my fork - but S3-only works with vanilla. Working to get the patch upstreamed
celld doesn't ship with any integration or capability tests which makes it a bit tough to modify, but that's what great about source github.com/ewhauser/celld-tc…
@rough__sea happy to donate if you change your mind about keeping tests in the repo
Eric Hauser retweeted
Looking for an amazing Rust engineer to join our team at pgdog.dev! We are building sharded Postgres that works everywhere, incl. your cloud, CI, or local dev.
Fun story - you can't actually create the exact Instinct experience for health care because neither Apple (iMessage, RCS) or Google (RCS) will let you use their services with PHI even with the patient's consent
Just imagine if Anthropic had Marc’s product marketing skills instead of Dario’s “AI is going to take all your jobs” gloom and doom…
So much alpha in playing for the @warriors
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for ~$12.9bn. But who gets the 💰? My usual breakdown below 👇
*Investors are sharing ~$7.3bn of profits on <$400m invested. A cool ~20x blended.*
*1) The single biggest winner here? Lux Capital.* 👑
Lux is taking the crown for the most $ returned in this transaction. The two rounds they led (Series A & Series C) generated ~$2.6bn combined. They also participated in the Series B.
Congrats to @wolfejosh and team. The $15.0m Series A alone will return ~132.5x the capital invested, or ~$2.0bn. The most lucrative round in absolute $ returned.
*2) Backing an exceptional team paid off with a >1,000x return for Betaworks and the angels* 📈
The story few people know: Hugging Face started life as a chatbot for lonely teenagers... You sent it a selfie and a sad emoji, it told you it understood. Quite far from where it landed!
That is why backing an exceptional team in @ClementDelangue, @Thom_Wolf and @julien_c is always the right thing to do. It paid over 1,000x for Betaworks, Kevin Durant and Thibaud Elziere.
*3) Founders and team are crushing it: not taking too much dilution along the way paid off* 👏
I estimate they will share ~$5bn in proceeds, assuming no secondary was taken along the way. A life changing outcome for them and many employees.
Taking a 15% attributed option pool at exit, this would mean ~$2bn for the team and >$3bn to share for the three co-founders. Legendary!
*4) Salesforce Ventures is cementing its reputation as one of the very best corporate VCs.* 🥇
Salesforce is adding Hugging Face to its long list of successful exits: Snowflake, Zoom, DocuSign, nCino, Auth0... Very few investors can claim as many successes, let alone corporates.
The $235m round they led returned $675m in just three short years. Meanwhile, Salesforce's own stock has been flat for the period. Capital well invested!
*5) This is a little bit of a heartbreak: but I wanted to congratulate @joinstationf here:*
Hugging Face walked into StationF as a 4-person team on day one, June 2017. Back when it was a chatbot for teenagers. They went through multiple corporate programs (Microsoft, Ubisoft, then Naver). Unfortunately they were not investing or taking equity at the time - but they contributed to making it possible. And so for that: hats off.
And of course, congratulations to all others involved: Addition, Sequoia, Coatue and many others. No one will be left out!
Released eve-ambient would be easier to use if it could just use any world backend so split out the celld backend into it's own world
github.com/ewhauser/world-ce…












