Hugging Face designer recalls joining 6 years ago after Julien Chaumond's cold DM
victormustar · x · 2026-09-05
Hugging Face designer victormustar reflects on his 6-year journey at HF: Julien Chaumond cold-messaged him on Twitter about building a "hub for the ML models community," he joined after finding it interesting, iterated Hub design prototypes by day 18, got an offer email by day 41, and wrote the "The AI community building the future" tagline just 2 days before launch on day 169.
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