想知道LangChain怎么从七个人做到三百人？这篇第一人称回忆讲了真实早期经历，没有虚的，全是干货。
LangChain团队在2025年从约100人增长至超过300人，规模几乎翻三倍。早期公司只有7人，创始人Harrison Chase和Ankush Gola在ChatGPT发布后一个月开始合作。当时网站仅包含一个鹦鹉图标和链接图标，没有任何营销内容。团队坚持“对废话零容忍”原则，优先解决用户真实问题而非追逐GitHub星标。目前LangChain正在招聘产品、工程、办公管理等多个岗位。
fun trip down memory lane
fun trip down memory lane Jacob Lee @Hacubu This year @LangChain 🦜 🔗 has almost tripled in size, from ~100 people to over 300! That's a lot of new faces, and I'm often asked: "What made you join early? What was the company like at seven people?" I'm always honest: I wasn't convinced right away. I mean, three years ago, the website looked like this web.archive.org/web/2023030322… BG Raw HTML and two emojis for a logo. When I told my parents I was joining, they asked, pretty directly, if I'd lost my mind. I met @ankush_gola11 about a month after ChatGPT launched and the open-source started getting real traction. I was completely fascinated by the technology, but my reaction to his pitch was "cool - good luck!" In addition to said website, I had just come off six years founding a company, and didn't want to jump back into an early startup. A few weeks later, a client wanted to build an LLM-powered extraction pipeline - nowhere near as trivial then as it is now. I tried an early version of LangChain.js, and it worked great, so I kept exploring and found the section on agents. The magic there completely hooked me. It truly seemed like something out of science fiction. Thankfully, @hwchase17 and Ankush were still looking to round out their founding team, and I got to see how they operated up close. Unlike most startups, LangChain has never had a name recognition problem, and I knew firsthand how easy it was to start chasing GitHub stars and other vanity metrics. But from the start, the team was serious about seeing through the fluff, listening to the community even when tempers flared, and building what actually solved user problems. They weren't always right - I joke that back then we were a six-month-old startup with a year of tech debt - but I admired how quickly they'd throw out popular beliefs and abstractions the moment evidence showed they were wrong or wouldn't scale. Anyone remember ConversationalRetrievalChain? The website itself was emblematic of this "zero tolerance for bullshit" approach (as Harrison puts it). The small early team could have spent time creating a beautiful marketing site, but marketing wasn't the problem back then (though we're hiring now!). A parrot and a link emoji was enough. Time was better spent shipping. So, what was it actually like at seven people? Different principles, but ones that rhyme with the old ones. "Zero tolerance for bullshit" has become "act with maximum agency". Our most interesting Slack discussions start with "Hot take", and it's a mark of dishonor if people react with ice cubes, meaning it's not extreme enough to encourage a rethink of a longstanding belief. But the north star hasn't moved: build something great, and cut everything that isn't that. There's a lot of story left to write. We're hiring across product, engineering, office management, people ops, and more! If that sounds like a place you'd thrive, come find us. P.S. the OG site is a lot more clever than it looks - se berkshirehathaway.com yP 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 3 🔄 1 ❤️ 14 👀 2103 📊 3 ⚡