This week on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Harvey cofounder and CEO Winston Weinberg. Harvey is one of the leading application layer AI companies, building domain-specific AI for law firms, professional service providers, and the Fortune 500. They are already working with companies like Bridgewater, KKR, PWC, and O’Melveny with over $500M in funding from OpenAI, Sequoia, Kleiner, GV and Elad and Sarah. In this episode, Sarah and Winston cover AI product strategy, the future of professional services, company values, keeping up with research, and the law industry of the future. 

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Show Notes: 

0:00 Introduction

2:39 Harvey’s founding story 

3:46 Capability improvement

6:39 Building teams around AI capabilities

9:17 End to end task completion

12:37 Beginning with large industry leaders

17:21 Working with users skeptical of automation

20:40 Being a lawyer today and in the future

26:02 Adapting product for other domains

26:58 Hiring philosophy at Harvey

30:39 Lessons and mistakes as a founder

32:53 Personal drive

40:21 Advice to other founders

44:35 Prediction for next ChatGPT moment