Winston Weinberg

And it got really good outputs.

Then to kind of like test it even more, we went on r slash legal advice, which is a subreddit where people ask a bunch of legal questions.

And the end is almost always like, can I sue somebody?

And we grabbed a bunch of landlord-tenant questions in California, and we ran this chain of thought prompt over them.

And we basically gave it to three landlord-tenant lawyers.

And we said, somebody asked this question.

We said nothing about AI.

Just somebody asked this question, and here's the answer from a lawyer, right?

Would you send this?

Like, if you were the lawyer here, would you send this with zero edits?

On 86 out of 100 of those questions, three out of three attorneys said yes.

And that was the oh, my God moment for me and for my co-founder.

We said we need to do something in this industry.

So we got all of those outputs.

And the thing that was happening kind of like simultaneously is Gabe had some friends that were thinking about joining this company called OpenAI.

We basically said, hmm, we're using GPT-3 to do this.

Let's just cold email Sam Altman.

and uh the general counsel at the time whose name is jason kwan i think he's the chief strategy officer now and we emailed them the results and we basically said that i mean the body of the email was basically did you know that the models were this good at legal and we emailed them that they got back to us like pretty fast we met with jason first and just kind of like went through what we did in the process with reddit we showed like our chain of thought prompts and things like that and then we met with the rest of the leadership team on actually the fourth of july

And we pitched them our idea for the company and we raised money after that.

Yeah, we didn't go to any other VCs or anything like that.