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

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

February 14, 2025

Duration

49m

Channel

No Priors

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sarah Guo

  host

• Winston Weinberg

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Winston Weinberg, No Priors Ep. 101 | With Harvey CEO and Co-Founder Winston Weinberg explores harvey’s Winston Weinberg on AI Reshaping Law, Workflows, And Careers Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of Harvey, explains how the company is building an AI platform for legal and professional services by decomposing complex knowledge work into reusable “AI patterns” and end‑to‑end workflows. He describes their early conviction in model capability improvements, their strategy of working first with top-tier, conservative institutions, and how they structure product around both broad productivity tools and highly specialized systems. The conversation digs into how senior domain experts are used for evaluation, how AI will change law firm economics, training, and junior work, and why he believes the future is task displacement rather than job displacement. Weinberg also reflects on startup building in a fast-moving AI landscape: hiring for agency over experience, scaling himself as a founder, and cultivating a culture of intense ownership in a once‑in‑a‑generation technological moment.

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