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Congratulations @modal on crossing $1B run rate and your Series D! Happy to be in your corner 👏
Today we're announcing that Modal has crossed $1B in annualized run rate, as well as raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation, led by @Accel.
Since our Series C, usage has tripled and we’ve grown more than 15x year-over-year.
We are deeply grateful to the developers and companies building on Modal. There's still so much more to build, and we can't think of a better time to be building software.
Allison Pickens retweeted
Today we're announcing that Modal has crossed $1B in annualized run rate, as well as raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation, led by @Accel.
Since our Series C, usage has tripled and we’ve grown more than 15x year-over-year.
We are deeply grateful to the developers and companies building on Modal. There's still so much more to build, and we can't think of a better time to be building software.
Allison Pickens retweeted
Please stop referring to your own models in the third person when talking about model bad behavior. Humans write the software; humans built the prompts; and they work for your company.
“Our” model is doing illegal things. “Our” model is risky. “We” now have liability.
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.
Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.
We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
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New Post: Traits I look for in founders: nakulmandan.com/blog/2024/tr…
(Also, two posts in two weeks after 4+ years of no blogging!!)
One of the best habits I've ever developed is to get angry, rather than sad, when things don't go well. That fire in my belly is what has gotten me through hard times. Get back up and get it!
Here's a framework I used for evaluating my executives, built with my favorite CEO coach allisonpickens.substack.com/…
What's the latest in customer success? My take here: allisonpickens.substack.com/…
Jasper's Journey: From First-Mover to Defensible Generative AI Product allisonpickens.substack.com/…
Allison Pickens' Newsletter: Stomach in Knots about Your Strategic Plan? Some Pro Tips from Netlify. allisonpickens.substack.com/…
Allison Pickens' Newsletter: Is Your Market Growing Fast Enough? allisonpickens.substack.com/…
A new founder program - a common app for pre-seed - from @AforeVC allows founders to pitch many investors all at once. I am excited to participate, and innovate alongside Afore. Founders and investors -> learn more and apply here ctt.ec/mSMUe+
This framework for branding *strongly* resonates
Thinking about trimming your software budget?
@AndrejSafundzic at Lumos offers a helpful perspective:
allisonpickens.substack.com/…
Outdated frameworks for managing career growth:
* Annual promotion cycles
* The path to promotion requiring ICs to become managers
* Forced ranking of employees
New model: Just-in-Time Career Progression
I learned a ton from @BarbraGago at @Pando_HR! allisonpickens.substack.com/…
Moving to a usage-based pricing model doesn't just mean changing your pricing -- it means changing basically very aspect of your Go-to-Market. Check out my convo w/ Kevin Liu at @getmetronome here:
We chatted with @PickensAllison on her experience helping companies navigate the shift to usage-based pricing and the impact on GTM operations.
Check out the post here: metronome.com/blog/q-a-how-u…
