Ed Elson
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from killing you?
What's stopping OpenAI from killing you?
If you are literally dependent on their models and they appear to have an ability to build the models themselves and to implement them into various industries.
I mean, OpenAI can build codecs and they can just insert that into the software engineering space.
What's stopping them from doing that with legal?
It sounds like one of the things that we're learning here is that one of the biggest shortcomings of AI right now in terms of actually implementing it into the framework of an enterprise is trust and security.
And that puts you in an interesting position because your company is literally three years old.
And so the idea that you're going to come to these big law firms and say, don't worry, you can count on us.
I worked at Meta.
I worked at DeepMind.
I'm a young guy, and this is my roommate, and you can trust us with your data.
That seems to be a pretty bold statement.
How have you navigated as a founder and as a pretty early first-time founder, like, you
dealing with trying to get people to trust you?
Like, how do you actually do that as an entrepreneur?
How much does branding play a role in all of that?
Because something I think about with this is what you really want, especially for these very storied white-collar institutions, is you want to present as institutional.
But if you are a startup, you are by definition not institutional.
And that seems to be the real problem for a lot of companies that are trying to break into these very institutional industries is that this isn't a place for startup, but this is law.
This isn't a place for technology.