Thinking or tinkering @modal_labs — ex Jane St, Google, MIT
New York, NY
Joined May 2025
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Some projects are only done for shareholder value. This one was done for the love of the game, literally! My favorite online game, Curvytron, is now backed by the Sticky Sessions primitive my team recently shipped :)
curvytron.modal.dev/#/
Shoutout to @siwonpark_, @ksinpoint1, and @kathirmeyyappan for embodying the @modal spirit and shipping this with speed.
“Modal is not a place. Never was. This could be Modal. Modal is where our people stand.” - @akshat_b probably
The one thing Modal’s growth can’t quantify is the people. Cheers to the tightest community I’ve ever had, close friends, and my favorite mentor @_gongy
Ft. @teenychairs, me, @akshat_b, @peywalt
My Modal journey started in SF 4.5 years ago as an intern. Since then I've learnt so much from my mentor @akshat_b and our two desks in a shared WeWork have become hundreds in a new SF office.
What compels me about Modal's growth is not the number but the mindset. You can hire to grow 2x per year, but any more and you damage culture.
How do you scale growth past 2x? Grow the people.
This is most important thing Modal has done -- it's figure out how to find people with high potential, and grow them 4-5x per year. It creates a happy culture, and the company grows way faster than you can hire.
Come to mentor, and come to grow. modal.jobs
D is for Developers 👏 DEvElOpeRs 👏 DEVELOPERS 👏 WOOOOOO!!!
modal.jobs
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.
The only part of this article I used AI for was the cover photo, I swear.
Link to session - chatgpt.com/share/6aa3732d-0… View article
When I grind, I want to do it with the best people, and preferably next to a beach some of the time :)
Go read this blog! Colin is a phenomenal writer and shared great systems intuition. My whiteboard diagramming skills could use some work.
We call this project “sandbox infinity” internally (coined by @waltergoat) and I’m super excited that we’ve begun releasing this in beta!
Hard to say whether the lore or the infra principles are more interesting. Lmk which you’d rather hear about 👀.
will never forget when i intentionally naively asked @dshaar_ why 1M concurrent sandboxes is hard and he was like: "you're asking why is instantiating more than 10,000 containers per second hard?"
and then generously proceeded to explain all of the challenges and infra work that made this possible
huge props to the team
This launch is huge...
And of course it's powered by new and improved SoTA infra you can only get from us ;)
C is for "come join us", we're just getting started!
Today we're announcing our Series C funding: $355M at a $4.65B valuation, led by some great investors @generalcatalyst and @Redpoint.
We've had insane growth in the last year, but we're still very early. So proud of the team and what we have built so far!
🎉 aaaand we also dropped a sick website redesign, check it out!
It's true – @modal has raised a $87M Series B at a $1.1B valuation to advance the future of AI infrastructure.
Thank you to @Lux_Capital, @Redpoint, @AmplifyPartners, and others.
Now more than ever, AI demands a complete reinvention of traditional compute infrastructure
Daniel Shaar retweeted
We're thrilled to share Modal Notebooks: a new, powerful cloud-hosted GPU notebook. It has modern real-time collaborative editing and is backed by our AI infrastructure — swap GPUs in seconds.
Modal Notebooks are generally available, and you can start using them now. 🧵
Building out the backend for “AI-scale” batch jobs on Modal has been one of the cooler bits of tech I’ve worked on. Making it ridiculously easy to use is what keeps Modal feeling like magic 🪄.
Super happy to see @_gongy and the team’s efforts here come to fruition!
Really excited to drop this! Check out the blog here - modal.com/blog/cache-dict-la…
Some alternative titles that didn’t quite make the cut:
- Big Dict Energy
- Dict Size Doesn’t Matter
We've had support for Dicts, a serverless KV store, for a while now on @modal_labs. @dshaar_ just overhauled them to make them 10x better:
🚀 No scale limits
📆 LRU-cache semantics
🔐 Distributed locking
💎 Durability
With this, they feels much more like a primitive that *just work* for everything from storing temporary state to caching function results.