Winston Weinberg
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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
I didn't even have friends in tech.
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 did our seed and we didn't go to anybody else.
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 was just OpenAI.
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
How much did they invest and for how much?
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 don't remember what the post actually was, but the pre-investment was like, it was like 4 million or something like 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
And anyway, what happened at this, the series A was we went and met with basically like, I think it was like 10 VCs or something like that in like 48 hours.
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
Right.
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 I quite literally did not know who the VCs 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 didn't know.
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
My co-founder was from tech and he knew and he basically gave me advice and things like 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
So I actually think I had a weirdly unique view of the VCs because my entire judgment of them was just how that first meeting went.
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 didn't know that Sequoia was in this tier and this one was in this tier and whatever.
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 didn't know.
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
any of 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
I think like half or something like 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
Yeah.
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 worst term sheet or the worst meeting?
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
Oh, I'm not going to say that publicly.
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's worth a go.
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
There was one.