Today, we’re announcing @LangChain's Series C fundraise at a $ 3BN valuation, and holy f we’re doing it!!
When I joined @hwchase17, @ankush_gola11, and the rest of the 8 person team in the summer of 2023, we were pre-revenue, pre-commercial product, and honestly the biggest risk I saw to joining the insanely stacked crew was “would this LLM technology thing ever do anything useful?!”.
I was an alien to Harrison. He didn’t know what to do with me since I wasn’t going to code and that was pretty much all the team did back then. We were so locked in, the small office was silent while hundreds of PRs were handwritten (no coding agents back then!). Later, I found out people referred to our first office as the SAT testing center because yeah… locked in :). Since product was Harrison’s, I did sales and the rest. And day after day, the LangChain team just kept at it.
Startups and LangChain are built on belief. I believed this small team could build something great. We believed that more and more software would look like agents, and we were going to power it. Our earliest customers – Carlos at Cisco, Joel at Workday, Yusuke at Rakuten, Tanvi at LinkedIn, Yaron at Klarna believed that betting core parts of their company AI strategy on the Lang stack would work out. Our teammates (many of my friends) who joined us, believed they could grow personally and professionally alongside the company, and our investors @chetanp, @sonyatweetybird, @tomloverro, Mo, Angela, @rajeevdham, @milesgrimshaw continue to believe that we’re still just getting started, and there’s so much growth ahead.
We’re a lot bigger and louder than those early days (400+ teammates, 7,000+ customers, products that actually work). But job’s not finished, and I believe / hope it never will be.
When I joined @hwchase17, @ankush_gola11, and the rest of the 8 person team in the summer of 2023, we were pre-revenue, pre-commercial product, and honestly the biggest risk I saw to joining the insanely stacked crew was “would this LLM technology thing ever do anything useful?!”.
I was an alien to Harrison. He didn’t know what to do with me since I wasn’t going to code and that was pretty much all the team did back then. We were so locked in, the small office was silent while hundreds of PRs were handwritten (no coding agents back then!). Later, I found out people referred to our first office as the SAT testing center because yeah… locked in :). Since product was Harrison’s, I did sales and the rest. And day after day, the LangChain team just kept at it.
Startups and LangChain are built on belief. I believed this small team could build something great. We believed that more and more software would look like agents, and we were going to power it. Our earliest customers – Carlos at Cisco, Joel at Workday, Yusuke at Rakuten, Tanvi at LinkedIn, Yaron at Klarna believed that betting core parts of their company AI strategy on the Lang stack would work out. Our teammates (many of my friends) who joined us, believed they could grow personally and professionally alongside the company, and our investors @chetanp, @sonyatweetybird, @tomloverro, Mo, Angela, @rajeevdham, @milesgrimshaw continue to believe that we’re still just getting started, and there’s so much growth ahead.
We’re a lot bigger and louder than those early days (400+ teammates, 7,000+ customers, products that actually work). But job’s not finished, and I believe / hope it never will be.
