Ep 58: How a lawyer built an AI company with Cecilia Ziniti, founder GC AI

How should General Counsel and legal teams be leveraging generative AI? How do you get started on your AI journey and what mistakes should you avoid? Where is the AI revolution heading?

Join Cecilia Ziniti, Founder and CEO of GC AI, as she discusses how and why she made the leap from working as a corporate lawyer to creating a generative AI product specifically designed for in-house counsel. Find out how her years leading legal for AI-powered tech companies like Replit, Anki, and Cruise (and serving as lead counsel on Amazon’s Alexa) prepared her to create a company offering a groundbreaking product that serves the various needs of lawyers with precision and care.

Listen as Cecilia discusses the similarities between lawyers and large language models, how to begin experimenting with generative AI with the goal of making both your professional and personal life smoother, why you can’t let others tell you you’re “just” a lawyer, and why legal professionals should always use emojis.

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Topics:
Introduction: 0:00
Leading legal at Replit: 2:52
Why lawyers should use emojis: 5:40
Starting a business after gaining extensive experience working with AI: 13:00
Considering how GCs should leverage AI: 22:18
Hiring legal teams in the age of AI: 39:03
Teaching a class on AI at Stanford University: 47:35
Book Recommendations: 51:52
What you wish you’d known as a young lawyer: 55:11

Connect with us:
Cecilia Ziniti - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliaziniti/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

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