Today, we're opening our Singapore office and announcing our first law school partnership in Southeast Asia, with the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.
Reddit AMA with our cofounders @gabepereyra and @winstonweinberg tomorrow, Wednesday May 27th, 1pm PT / 4pm ET.
Join us on r/legaltech, hosted by @alexjdenne and @meliarobin.
We're excited for your questions!
Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important in high-stakes industries like legal and @MistralAI is a force in the EU and globally. Excited to be partnering to bring their models onto the platform!
🎙️Episode 50 with Harvey founder @winstonweinberg
We went well over an hour, but I could have easily kept going Lex Fridman style. Maybe for episode 100.
00:00 Zach's Take: there has never been a company like Harvey
3:44 Why Harvey triggers so many feelings
8:10 The challenges of rapid scaling and system stability
11:32 The super in the weeds technical realities of scaling
14:40 Building a battle-tested team culture
17:46 Winston’s shift from GTM to 95% product and engineering
19:15 The transition to cloud agents and the future of orchestration
23:10 Why fine-tuning and evals are making a comeback in legal
25:15 Managing the high cost of frontier intelligence and compute
29:25 Moving from individual to institutional productivity
31:10 The ROI of AI: Will it kill or revive the billable hour?
38:40 Competing against base model providers (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic)
42:30 Harvey’s killer features: Vault, shared spaces, and security
48:40 Expanding AI use cases: From transactional work to litigation
55:20 Proactive internal investigations and horizon scanning
59:00 How AI changes the training and loyalty of junior associates
1:05:00 Using AI as a talent retention strategy for law firms
1:10:45 Silicon Valley’s investment and the future of legal tech spending
It is rare to see increasing product velocity at scale... but @harvey is just getting better and better thanks to @aniqued@sgurumur@gabepereyra@nikogrupen and all of their truly elite teammates
“Intensity plus joy — an aha moment for me at Baseten is that those two things are not on opposite sides of a spectrum. Those can be inextricably linked, and that is the best.”
Our President @DannieHerz sat down with Conviction to chat GTM, culture, and hiring in an evolving AI market.
Last week, we brought 25 People and Talent leaders into one room for our People Leader Summit in SF.
A few themes from the day:
1. The moment recruiting becomes "recruiting's job," you've already lost.
2. The best teams identify who the best people are first, then confirm the hypothesis.
3. Design interviews for judgment, not just output. Give candidates AI tools and see if they can go deeper.
4. Fewer, better people is a strategy, not a budget constraint.
5. Culture at scale cascades from how leaders actually behave, there’s no program substitutes for that.
6. Embedded engineers in People and GTM teams are compressing 10-week review cycles to 10 days and driving SDR productivity up 30%.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and made it worth remembering.
@Oskarlso@cursor_ai@jdewitt29@vercel@katieburkie@harvey@davepaffenholz@juicebox_work
Which AI company should you work for if you want to optimize for career success?
I used Claude to research career frameworks from 6 prominent entrepreneurs – @eladgil@pmarca@paulg@naval@rabois – and asked it to rank every single AI company into a tier list.
The process: I had Claude pull each person's most iconic essay on career decisions, extract the first principles from each framework, and then score every major AI company against all 8 criteria simultaneously.
The criteria:
1. Wave Riding – Is this company at the epicenter of the most important market shift happening right now?
2. Talent Density – Will your coworkers be the best people you've ever worked with, and will this alumni network compound for decades?
3. Stage & Optionality – Is the company small enough (20-200 people) that you'll wear many hats, with equity that can still appreciate 20-100x?
4. Compounding Learning – Will your rate of learning stay high year after year, and can you become a "barrel" who takes ideas from zero to shipped?
5. Specific Knowledge + Leverage – Will you build skills that feel like play to you but look like work to others, with access to code, media, or capital leverage?
6. Curiosity & Mission – Does the work excite genuine intellectual curiosity, and is the company's mission real – not just a recruiting pitch?
7. Equity & Ownership – Do you own a meaningful piece of the outcome, or are you just renting your time for a salary?
8. Brand Signal – Will this name on your resume open every door afterward, and are you building a public reputation through accountability?
What am I missing? Do you agree with this list?
Two milestones in France: we've opened our Paris office and @AugustDebouzy has rolled out @harvey firmwide.
France is shaping the future of legal AI and we're excited for what’s ahead.
Read more about our Paris office opening here: https://t.co/nnfk9Niu1U
Read more about August Debouzy here: https://t.co/Mw0WZgpRg9
At @startupgrind, GV Gen. Partner Sangeen Zeb sat down with @Harvey co-founder & president @gabepereyra for a candid conversation about hypergrowth. They discussed building alongside Winston Weinberg, operating with urgency, and the pressure that comes with scaling at AI speed.