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Eric Zhang, a software engineer, researcher, and designer, recently left Modal, where he had worked since 2022, to work at Thinking Machines. Zhang joined Modal when it was still tiny and needed to grow a lot. The company recently raised at a $1 billion valuation. In this post, Zhang reflects on the time he spent at the company and details how it grew to a team of 70 people.