John Sarihan

co-founder @crosbylegal
Prev @tryramp, @google, @wharton Penn M&T

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

This is a message I shared with the team earlier today. It's still day one at Crosby.

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@jamiecuffe @ThriveCapital @sequoia @emergencecap @pruvencapital @pacecom 🚀🚀

[Crosby @crosbylegal]

Teams closing faster with Crosby:

Cursor
Ramp
Cognition
Clay
Bilt
Rogo
Physical Intelligence
Parallel
Braintrust
Cartesia
Simile
Rox
Browserbase
Nominal
Serval

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@peywalt @amitpr The real winner here is AWS windows runners

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@emilyzsh @ryanjdaniels with emily's joining we are updating legal AGI timelines internally

[emily sihan zhang @emilyzsh]

some personal news!

it is rare to find a company that is genuinely novel and singular -- couldn't be more excited to be building the legal experience of the future with @ryanjdaniels @jsarihan & the incredible Crosby team

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

So excited to welcome @emilyzsh to Crosby!

One of the most important lessons I learned at Ramp is to hire people for slope. As I got to know Emily, it became clear to me that she hones her craft at an exceptional clip. As one reference put it, "her rate of learning is basically vertical.”

Coming from A24 Labs and Long Lake, Emily brings a sharp aesthetic sense and an ability to bridge the gap between “what the code does” and “how the customer actually feels” that is both rare and critical to building exceptional experiences.

[emily sihan zhang @emilyzsh]

while this is true of bad startups, it is definitely not true of great ones. great startups know how to find and cultivate underpriced talent early, and a startup is the best place for a young person who is willing to roll up their sleeves, fail and learn quickly. the first 2 internships i did were both at startups, and I learned way more in them than i did in big tech.

in the current state of AI agents, you don’t really need mediocre junior engineers who have been handheld through their cushy internships. but high agency young people are always valuable regardless of how the tools develop!!!

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@zachkrall This is awesome

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@tkkong @philhchen 🚀🚀

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

Everyone wants a “Slack built from scratch” to better cowork with agents, and @andocorporation is building it.

I spent a month with them to write a deep dive piece on Sara's story and the Ando product (the first public piece about their product, ever - no pressure!)

Here it is! 💫 I write about:

- @saradu’s 2x founding journey from Alloy to Ando, couchsurfing across hacker houses in SF
- making workplace chatter ‘ergonomic for agents’
- architecture-inspired design principles
- early alpha customers experience with ando

This was incredibly fun to write, thanks to many walks, office visits, and conversations with @saradu, @ryanharaki_ , Jordan, Oliver, @sofiadolfe from Index, and the wider Ando team.

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

we're hiring builders - https://t.co/ZzlEILGqWm

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

This is a message I shared with the team earlier today. It's still day one at Crosby.

[Zach Krall @zachkrall]

ok i still dont understand why chat, cowork, code are even separate tabs to begin with

[Ryan Daniels @ryanjdaniels]

The neofirms of the future won't just be faster, they will be better.

They're powered by a new business model with better inecntives. In other words: fewer billable hours, more innovation.

This is something to celebrate... and so we did :)

[Ryan Daniels @ryanjdaniels]

it's a great day to be alive (and to not be selling yet another legal word plug-in)

[Crosby @crosbylegal]

"If you look at the time it might take a human lawyer to redline a massive document like that vs the time that Crosby has been able to achieve, it's just been a much faster process. And in most cases, we are getting redlines back to customers the same day."

- Everett Berry, Head of GTM Engineering at @clay

Hear directly from Everett & Clay about working with Crosby below.

[Crosby @crosbylegal]

"If you have agents that can do entire swaths of legal work, then the best thing you should do is start a law firm.

Because you're selling work to clients, not merely fractions of work or helping lawyers along.

We're able to do end-to-end work in a way that if you're just selling a legal copilot, I think you're going to face a lot of competition just from the models with no customization."

- Crosby CEO @ryanjdaniels on @tbpn with @jordihays & @johncoogan announcing our $60M Series B led by @Lux_Capital & @IndexVentures

[Forbes @Forbes]

New York-based startup Crosby’s AI agents and lawyers work together to review contracts quickly, billed by the page, for the likes of Cursor and Runway. CEO Ryan Daniels calls it a “neofirm.” Read more: https://t.co/H0rmA3TV1o (📸: Crosby)

[John Sarihan @jsarihan]

@karimatiyeh Learned that speed is the only moat and how to move fast from the best. Thank you 🙏

[Karim Atiyeh @karimatiyeh]

5 minutes into meeting John he told me he wanted to start his own company. I told him Ramp was the best place to learn first. He took that seriously- built 0->1 products, ran hiring processes, operated like a founder from day one. A real builder and extremely high slope.

Now Ramp is a Crosby customer. We're defined by speed and Crosby is the first law firm that actually matches it.

Not surprised at all!