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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

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

My point is the entire market is massive right now.

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 don't mean just like legal AI market.

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 AI market is exploding.

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 I think you have to when you are a leader of a company like this, one of the biggest jobs that you have is to make sure that your team doesn't feel like they've already won because the reality is the market pull is massive.

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 sometimes your success isn't just your execution.

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 the market pull.

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 you have to benchmark yourself against other folks in the market and not just legal AI companies, but actually just AI adoption, 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

I also think that we're just on an insanely compressed timeline.

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

Like I think the winners and losers are going to be decided in the next couple of years in a lot of these spaces.

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 you really have to at all times make sure that the company doesn't go, wow, I did a really good job, chest bump, head pat, like we're done, 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

You have to instill this, yeah, well, Anthropic, you know, 10X and they started at XYZ billions of revenue this year.

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 we can do better than that this year.

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

Felt the most uncomfortable high.

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, I think maybe the Series C felt very high.

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

What was 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 was 1.5 is what we were valued at.

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 our revenue was definitely lower.

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

Lower.

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 maybe that was one of the ones that felt super high.