Kevin Hu

CEO @metaplane (acq by Datadog) - Ensuring trust in data through data observability

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@swyx *Appreciate* these reflections. Happy birthday!

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@raphaelschaad @ycombinator Congratulations @raphaelschaad 🧡

They (and many future founders) are lucky to work with you!

[Datadog, Inc. @datadoghq]

Datadog has acquired @metaplane, a data observability platform that provides advanced machine learning-powered monitoring and column-level lineage to prevent, detect and resolve data quality issues. Learn more: https://t.co/tZehUm2z5V

[Thariq @trq212]

✨ New AI Interfaces powered by Interpretability

I'm excited to share LatentLit, the result of my applied AI research fellowship with @GoodfireAI

Mechanistic interpretability isn’t just important for AI safety, it also gives us new ways to steer and interact with LLMs.

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@raphaelschaad @ycombinator Almost five years later I’m still a DAU of @NotionCalendar née @Cron 🧡

[Michiel Bakker @bakkermichiel]

🚨🚨🚨 VERY excited to share our new paper on how AI can facilitate democratic deliberation, published today in @ScienceMagazine! Together with @mhtessler, @summerfieldlab, and other amazing collaborators at @GoogleDeepMind we've been building the "Habermas Machine"

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@hyperquery @DeepnoteHQ Congrats to the Hyperquery and Deepnote teams!!

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

Things that are awesome:
1. @Ramp
2. Ramp's data team
3. Ramp's SF office
4. Price intelligence
5. Working with @iandmacomber on a presentation at @Snowflake Summit

It's a pleasure contributing in a tiny, modest way to help a great team build a product that saves folks so much time and money (including us)

[Ian Macomber @iandmacomber]

I had a blast joining @kevinzenghu at @SnowflakeDB Summit to share how @tryramp powers our price intelligence AI products (along with @metaplane's help!)

Our vision: if your company has 100 SaaS vendors, we can tell you which of those 20 vendors are overcharging you, which line items you can negotiate, and which of those 20 are coming up for renewal next month (saving you 💸💸💸)! Equally importantly, we'll tell you where you're getting a great deal (saving you ⌛⌛⌛)!

If you've ever wondered if you're overpaying for SaaS - check our our incredible procurement product (shoutout @tkkong and team!)

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@NotCanceled Congratulations!!! ❤️

[Snowflake @Snowflake]

Hello @Metaplane 👋

We’re excited to announce our investment in Metaplane, a leading end-to-end data observability platform that helps data teams improve the quality and performance of their data.

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@Metaplane has 100s of customers now but @AndyMackenZ was the first

I still remember the first 6 characters of his customer ID hash

Thank you for being an OG!

[AM @AndyMackenZ]

@metaplane saving my butt after I pushed bad code, as usual ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@AndyMackenZ @metaplane 🫡 we got your back!

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@swyxio 🆙

[Gabriela Lanza @gabber_dean]

Editors, my cozy-vibes-high-stakes YA fantasy goes on sub soon!

When Sanna's childhood hero stages a bloody coup, Sanna must stop her the only way she can: by delivering the mail.

With:
🐉 Dragon-riding mail carriers
💞 LENGTHY queer pining
⛔ Never meet your idols
#luckypit

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@felicis @khoslaventures @ycombinator @flybridge @Stage2Capital @dropalltables Read more about our plans here: https://t.co/ibVFlujcoI

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

I’m happy to announce our $13.8M Series A led by @felicis, with participation from @khoslaventures, @ycombinator, @flybridge, @Stage2Capital, @dropalltables, B37 Ventures, and an incredible group of investors and advisors.

Metaplane preserves trust in data by ensuring data teams are the first to know about data issues.

In 2024, “is this number accurate?” shouldn’t be a question anyone asks. By connecting to a company’s entire data infrastructure, Metaplane intelligently understands when the most important data is facing quality issues and alerts the right people before impact to the business.

Last year, we shared our plans to go from detection to prevention, and from monitoring data quality to data usage and spend. We built those and more through 50+ product launches. And in parallel, we grew our revenue by 6x and customer base by 3x, ranging from the fastest-growing companies like Ramp and Klaviyo, to large enterprises like Bose and Sotheby’s.

With today’s additional funding, we are pressing our technical advantage as the most powerful data observability platform. More on this in the link below.

Thank you to our customers, investors, and friends, without whom this would not be possible: @jsoltero, @tecoker, @jonchu, @nikitabase, @KanuGulati, @dharmesh, @chazard, @bussgang, @itsthomson, @aaron_epstein, @rauchg, @maccaw, @DSJayatillake

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

Congrats Dr. Hulsebos! Madelon is a CS researcher pioneering the field of Table Representation Learning.

She exemplifies the curiosity, grit, and intellectual honesty possessed by the best scholars. Working with her was a highlight of my time at MIT.

Upwards & onwards!

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@alexkyllo Related: my friends who know the most languages tend to be the ones with fewer social inhibitions

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

@bernhardsson As a child of foreign parents living in the US who is not fluent in his heritage language, I’m very happy that you made this decision and wish more parents would do the same!