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Winston Weinberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
814 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And we grabbed a bunch of those questions, ran a chain of thought product that we had basically built on top of it and gave it to a bunch of landlord attorneys.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And then we basically said, just like, look at these questions and tell me if you would send the answer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

We didn't say anything about AI to the consumer who asked the question.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And of 86 out of 100 questions, three out of three said, this is a perfect answer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

I'm done.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And we cobbled all that together and we just sent a cold email to Sam Altman and Jason Kwan.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

The idea was basically, hey, did you guys know that at this point it was GPT-3 and just the API was public, I think the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022, they had an API.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

Did you know it was this good at legal?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

That was it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

That was basically the subject line of the email was like, did you know it was this good at legal?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And we met them like pretty recently after that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

It went well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

We had a call with Jason first and just kind of talked about, like, what is our strategy as a company and what would we build?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And then we had a final pitch to kind of the rest of the OpenAI C-suite actually the morning of July 4th, 2022.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

Yeah, it was like 11 a.m.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

on July 4th.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

And we did a pitch to the rest of the company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

Yes, I had a weird thing where I didn't know who any of these guys were.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

I know everything about every one of them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

Now I do, but back then I didn't know anything.