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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

It's very important to go through a couple stages, basically.

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 see stage one as product market fit.

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

Stage two is company market fit.

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

In other words, have you created the structures of your company that are the same as traditional B2B SaaS or whatever, consumer SaaS, whatever you're doing?

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 what's different?

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 there are differences.

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 any VC who says that there are no differences at this point hopefully has changed their mind.

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 are differences.

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 it's different based off of what vertical and which company you're trying to 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

So you have your product market fit, then you have company market fit, and then do you know what you want to go right back to?

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

Reinventing product market fit again, 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 so it feels like there's a cycle of doing 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 I think for us and like me personally, some of our first like couple of years was product market fit.

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

Last year was company market fit.

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 back to product market fit again, where it's like what I spend a lot of my time on is like what is the direction of our company and our product for the next six months, year, et cetera.

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 now you can start thinking 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

So we, it was funny.

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

This is, I think it was our offsite in 2024.

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 remember we kicked off 2025 and the first thing I did is go up and I said, Hey, we had a good year, but I'm pretty sure Anthropix at like 3 billion in revenue right now.