Diana Smith

marketing tech stuff

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

Congrats to @langchain on raising a $125M Series B! 🦜☀️

3 years ago (a month before ChatGPT launched!), @hwchase17 released LangChain as a popular "get started" booster pack. It was the first LLM agent package to really take off. As the agent space matured and changed rapidly, the framework has gone through significant controversy and growing pains. Harrison listened to the hard feedback and persisted.

Today the company maintains a trio of category leading products across the full agent engineering spectrum:
* LangChain (80M monthly downloads) for high-level agent development. Today's 1.0 release is written on top of LangGraph's runtime, bridging the rapid-start energy of O.G. LangChain with the low-level customization and control that developers need today
* LangGraph (12M monthly downloads) for low-level agent orchestration framework and runtime, used to power production agents at companies like @Uber @Klarna @LinkedIn and @jpmorgan
* LangSmith (traces growing 12x y-o-y) as a developer workbench for observability, evals, and deployment, used by companies such as @clay @Cloudflare @Replit @TrustVanta @Rippling @mercor_ai.
And lots more in development across memory, natural-language agent building, and more.

Congrats to @hwchase17 @ankush_gola11 @j_schottenstein on today's milestone. I admire your vision and resilience and am honored to be a part of your journey @sequoia ❤️

[LangChain @LangChain]

We raised $125M to build the platform for agent engineering.

Thank you to our investors (@IVP, @sequoia, @benchmark, @AmplifyPartners, @SapphireVC, @CapitalG, and more) for their belief in us, and to our customers like @Replit, @clay, @TrustVanta, @Cloudflare, @Rippling, @Cisco, @Workday, and many more for their trust.

Read more here about what this means for the future of building agents: https://t.co/LAYNbvpNYc

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

@twilio I would share my embarrassing livejournal username, but it may still live on the internet, and I don't want anyone to find it @TimSchraeder @streetsmeeps @Caitep

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

on brand decor in the @twilio office library

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

Happening now! Starting with a convo with @Erin_R_Reilly & CNN correspondent + nonprofit founder @VanJones68 on the future of technology in the social impact sector.

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

So stoked for my conversation with Chris Hoffman over at @NRC_Norway on how they are helping 650,000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine and using tech to tailor the support to what person needs. In Chris's words, "personalization is dignity." 🥲 https://t.co/Q96EiPMfIG

[JJ @HiJulieJennifer]

Excited to announce @makelogio's $3M seed funding, led by @Vas from @Accel!

Couldn't have imagined a better partner for us on this journey to modernize release communication for today's fastest-shipping teams!

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

So stoked for my conversation with Chris Hoffman over at @NRC_Norway on how they are helping 650,000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine and using tech to tailor the support to what person needs. In Chris's words, "personalization is dignity." 🥲 https://t.co/Q96EiPMfIG

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

This is consistent with what I’ve heard from my hometown in PA. Some high school friends hunted. We got off school for the first day of hunting season. Mascot was a mountaineer with a musket. 🤦🏻‍♀️ These friends want background checks & assault rifle bans. It just makes sense.

[Natalie Kitroeff @Nataliekitro]

A hunter told me he’s never giving up the right to harvest animals — but he thinks 18-year-olds should be prohibited from buying guns.

“He should never have been able to get that gun,” he said. “We should raise the age limit. We should do stronger background checks.”

[Roy E. Bahat @roybahat]

I don't know who needs to hear this, when I think about tech companies whose people keep working to have a positive impact on the world, @segment just comes up again and again and again.

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

Same. Yours truly included. Had a good run of 2.5 years. It’s OUT there in the Bay Area rn. 😷

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

Did you know that nonprofits outpace the private sector in digital engagement? 🤔 Learn more about how the social sector is using digital tech in our report documenting original research from nonprofits & beneficiaries.

[Twilio.org @TwilioDotOrg]

🚨 Hot off the press: 89% of nonprofits report that digital communications are critical to achieving their organization’s mission.

Dig into this insight and much more in our inaugural #StateofNonprofitEngagement report

https://t.co/5iTBijqRq4

[Twilio.org @TwilioDotOrg]

On behalf of our nonprofit customers and grantees, @Twilio is pleased to have our vaccine access work honored as one of @FastCompany's 2022 World Changing Ideas.

#FCWorldChangingIdeas
https://t.co/iuukG0d9Wz

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

@chatterboxCoder @GeeH @IObert_ @valeriane_IT @MaximumGilliard @benjagm @TwilioDevs So nice to say hello today and meet more folks on dev net!

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

Thanks for listening to my TED talk. 😂 (Trying out these threads on biz ideas.) Who else is great at overinvesting in customer success and talent? Of course, I'm biased, but @twilio is a great example of social impact.

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

Most companies underinvest in 4 departments that can have an outsized impact on the business IMHO.

Instead, companies consider them service organizations and cost centers even though overinvesting would bend up the growth curve.

Spoiler alert: Marketing isn't one of them.⬇️

[Diana Smith @DianaHSmith]

❣️Social impact - Aligning social impact with your core business and finding ways your product can contribute to communities will grow your positive impact on the world, revenue, AND employee engagement.