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Gergely Orosz highlights a year-long response delay from Mistral AI DevRel head Sophia Yang

Yang blamed direct message overload and recommended using email

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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz#1155inTech

@sophiamyang @antirez @matteocollina More than a year later, nice to get a reply.

Gave up after 6 months of waiting and messaging on other platforms - not just with you, but other folks at the company, press@ email etc.

Never tried so hard with a company, and I only have so much energy

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

@sophiamyang @MistralAI Congrats!

I sent a DM on LinkedIn (I cannot send any here as your DMs are only open to verified accounts). Not sure if any interest in potentially talking to @Pragmatic_Eng - if so, you know my contact details and have my message.

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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

Let me just lay it out:

1. I messaged on a bunch of channels in March 2025. DM'd you, mentioned you on Twitter, sent to press@, DM'd CTO, CEO. Nothing.

2. In Sep 2025 told an a16z Mistral investor it's impossible to talk to Mistral. Said he'll sort it. Nothing for 3 weeks.

3. THEN got a comms reachout from someone non-technical, generic comms.

By then I gave up. The vibe is that of an old school enterprise tech company. I can see where this would go: nowhere. So I just cover companies that don't take 6 months and 3 layers to respond to a message

Good luck, you'll need it

Sophia Yang, Ph.D.@sophiamyang

@GergelyOrosz @antirez @matteocollina Apologies for this! Okay just searched my inbox. I did get your email forwarded to me and directed the right team to respond to you.

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Sophia Yang, Ph.D.@sophiamyang

@GergelyOrosz @antirez @matteocollina Apologies for this! Okay just searched my inbox. I did get your email forwarded to me and directed the right team to respond to you.

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