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David Eckstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
287 total appearances

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

Absolutely.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And we have a number of different partnership fronts with Anthropic, whether it's co-development, whether it's leveraging their models, whether it's evals, there's a lot of joint opportunity that we can work on together.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And it's because of that close partnership that our customers benefit.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

We enjoy competition.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

Competition is what makes any company better.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

We weren't the first to the space, which drives a lot of humility.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

The space was established before we got there, and it forced us to make a lot of hard choices.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

When you start a company in Sweden, the entire Swedish market

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

is smaller than the top line of Kirkland.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And that means that you have to make a lot of calculated decisions about what you build, who you partner with, who you hire.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And as a result, we have operated expeditiously and efficiently to become one of the fastest growing software companies in history.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And having competition means that we need to out-innovate the rest of the space.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And the results speak for themselves.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

We have an incredibly high win rate.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

We have grown at a clip that no other software company has seen.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

But at the end of the day, I was a swimmer in high school and I was a competitive swimmer.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

And what our coach always told us is when you're finishing a race, you don't look to the left lane.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

You don't look to the right lane.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

You just focus on the wall in front of you.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E339: From Zero to $100 Million in 18 Months: Inside Legora

Because if you look in either direction, you break your stroke.