Mitch Duncombe

Building an AI native law firm & legal operating system for Startups. Formerly: YC Legal, Fenwick, Berkeley Law, high school basketball coach

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Washington’s Dream For America 🇺🇸😂

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@shivsakhuja Congrats on the launch!

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"that was lovely, but i need to go check on my agents; they've been running unsupervised long enough" - how my wife ended dinner tonight

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@sdianahu Congratulations!! Huge W for YC

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I started Vector Legal at 35. Got married the same year. Having the time of my life.

[Zander @zdogmode]

How old is too old to become a founder?

Have a friend that’s 35 and he thinks he’s missed the boat

Told him he’s crazy!

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This 👇. No one owes your anything.

[Michael B. Gilroy @MBGilroy]

I’ve seen one, maybe two VC dunking tweets that deserved to see the light of day. The rest just show how pampered and entitled society has become. No one owes you anything & I hope you’re prepared for every recruit & customer to tweet about your bad days at the office.

Work harder and be better, no one is coming to save you.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Legal AI superempowers normal individuals with no legal background to fight big institutions in bureaucracies and in courts on a level knowledge/skill playing field, for the first time in human history. As such, it is one of the most inspiring applications of AI.

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Deeply resonates. A top 10 tweet - of all time - on the founder’s task.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

There are two loops in every founder's head.

The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.

The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.

Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.

PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.

Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.

There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.

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@tmrohan Strong disagree. You’re wasting lawyer cycles and DE charter amendment fees for no material advantage at formation. Wait for leverage and then get what you want. If you’re going to do dual stock early the only approach that makes sense is Founder Preferred.

[Mitch Duncombe @mitchduncombe]

After working with companies through nine YC batches as a counsel on the YC Legal Team, I've left to launch a new ai-native law firm for startups in San Francisco. Grateful to team Keenan Venuti and Andrew Ancheta, our YC partner Jared Friedman, and most of all, our clients.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Vector Legal is building an AI-native law firm for Startups, combining experienced counsel + modern software for founders. The team brings deep experience in the space, having previously worked at Fenwick, YC Legal, and Ironclad.

Learn more and book a demo at https://t.co/q15EXfw2bw

Congrats on the launch, @keenlybuilt and @mitchduncombe!

https://t.co/BnQVTqfl6g

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@Cognixlab @ycombinator @keenlybuilt 🫡

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i should be able to ask @Spotify "what is my favorite song over the last [x] years" and it should load results from my historical data.