Winston Weinberg

And this happens so much in technology.

It happens a lot in tech.

The only other area where I know it happens an incredible amount is legal.

Legal and tech are probably two of the main ones where prestige matters, where you went to school matters, how your grades were, who you worked under, things like that, right?

It does help you in a sense of if you get one of those brands, people assume that there's maybe a higher chance of the company being successful.

The reality is that might be the wrong person to hire in the first place because the people that think or go to a company because of the investors usually don't care that much about the mission of the company.

And so my point with all of these things is there might be like some short-term games of perception mattering.

In the long run, it doesn't matter at all because if you make all of the wrong decisions, nothing matters.

It might help you with recruiting.

Do you care?

How many times a day do you think something goes wrong at Harvey?

Constantly, like 24-7?

How many times a day do you think we feel like there's like an existential threat?

The big model providers are gonna release something and maybe we haven't released something all the time.

Like startups are very difficult places to work.

And so you think of like from the outside, oh wow, they're like growing revenue so much, they're the category leader, they have all these investors, et cetera, et cetera, right?

GRR is high, all these things, right?

But internally at all of these companies, it's chaos and morale goes up and down.

You face really difficult things and then you have to figure out how to get through them.

Being a missionary really does matter because the reality is once you're on the inside, the brand of the company and the success of the company matters less than when you're on the outside.