No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg

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. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @WinstonWeinberg 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