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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

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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 Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Jan 19
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Jan 19
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Winston Weinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harvey, the leading professional services platform engineered with AI for law, tax, and finance. Winston has raised over $980M for Harvey from Sequoia, a16z, GV, Elad Gil and more with a last round price of $9....

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Building a successful AI-driven enterprise company demands more than technical innovation—it requires disciplined leadership, strategic hiring, and a deep understanding of long-term value creation. In this conversation, Winston Weinberg shares hard-earned insights from scaling Harvey, a high-growth B2B platform transforming professional services with AI.
10:13
A valuation multiple of 100 is iffy; 20–25 feels reasonable for end-of-year revenue.
25:05
Even if frontier models stopped improving, AI revenues could still explode due to low integration.
36:59
High ROI from AI products reduces the 'hostage' effect seen in legacy enterprise software
38:13
AI shifts spend from human labor to technology budgets
41:56
AI won't destroy jobs; it creates new work in legal and regulatory fields
46:07
Ownership allows employees to identify and fix problems independently as the company scales
51:45
AI researchers care about working on hard and interesting problems and will leave if company direction changes.
54:17
Listen more than you speak, as deal-making is about understanding people
1:00:10
Used AI-generated legal questions from a subreddit to cold-email OpenAI leadership

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B2B SaaS will outperform consumer apps
00:00
#1 Thing Every Founder Needs to Do Everyday
04:10
Must Do Daily Routines and Productivity Tips for CEOs
05:33
How to Get Sequoia and a16z Term Sheets
12:45
Why VCs Suck at Helping Companies Hire?
15:06
What No One Understands About Enterprise AI Adoption
27:01
AI's Impact on Professional Services
38:06
Future of Law Firms: Do They Die?
39:26
What Everyone Should Know That No One Tells You About Hiring in Europe
43:38
I Have Massive Trust Issues…
47:08
Biggest Lessons on Effective Deal-Making
54:17
Cold Emailing OpenAI and It Leading to a Term Sheet
59:20
Quick Fire Round
1:02:33

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Winston Weinberg: I think the value of B2B SaaS is about to become astronomical. I think that we're seeing a plateau in performance for consumer use cases. Probably what's going to happen is the economy is going to explode. I think a lot of people in deals...