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Weinberg: 60% of Harvey's revenue comes from law firms, 40% in-house
“I think it's around 40% of our revenue is in-house corporate, and 60% is law firm. Something like that.”
Weinberg reveals Harvey's seed round pre-money valuation was around $4 million
“The actual terms, I don't remember what the post actually was, but the pre-investment was like, it was like four million or something like that.”
Harvey deployed a 4,000-person enterprise rollout with just four employees
“I mean, we were like, when we signed Anno Sherman, which was our first customer, we had four people. So we did a 4000 person enterprise grade rollout with four people.”
Weinberg: Harvey raised its seed round exclusively from OpenAI
“When we did our seed, and we didn't go to anybody else. It was just OpenAI.”
Stebbings: AI startup Harvey raised $150M at an $8B valuation
“Harvey raises a hundred and fifty million bucks Eight billion dollar valuation led by our dear friends at Andreessen.”
Lemkin: Harvey's valuation implies $400M in forward annual recurring revenue
“If it's 400 forward revenue, that's 20 X. Agreed. That's what it is. 400 next year. They're, 400 ARR. That's what they're predicting. 400 ARR. Not GAP. 400 ARR. That's my guess.”
Lemkin: Harvey was indistinguishable from 11 other AI wrappers at seed
“If I'd met Harvey at the seed stage, I would have said this is great, but I don't know that I could have told the difference from the 11 other ones that were doing this amazingly as essentially, I hate the term, but as wrappers.”
Moore: AI legal tech startup Harvey had raw product at Series A
“If you looked at Harvey at the Series A and you saw its product, you probably weren't that impressed. It was just a very early product. The scaffolding of it was clear. What was possible with better models was clear, but it was still a very early and raw produ…”
Nayak: Legal AI Users Prefer Direct Grid Control Over Prompt Auto-Decomposition
“The thing that we did wrong there was actually people want to just make those terms in the grid itself. People don't want the AI to convert it. They just want to say for these 10,000 agreements, I just want this one thing created in the grid itself. They want …”
Nayak: AI products should route queries automatically, not force model choices
“That is an example of where the right user experience is the AI should just pick for you. The AI should just know what user query and intent is, or it should ask you questions to understand it better. And then it should just route you to the best system. For t…”
Nayak: Harvey PMs Build Product Prototypes Using Cursor and Claude
“PMs on my team create prototypes all the time using cursor or using a Claude to show, you know, show their ideas.”
Nayak: Harvey focuses on legal productivity tools over end-to-end automation
“Right now we have to focus on Harvey, the productivity suite, the software that lawyers use, and not the Harvey that, that does the work end to end.”
Ironclad built an AI product named Jurist that competes with Harvey
“And in addition to contract management, which is a much, you know, bigger thing, we also have this AI product that we've built. It's called Jurist, which is a Harvey competitor. It's pretty cool. And it's grown real quick.”
Facebook's Chris Cox Required Storytelling, Not Raw Data, to Be Influenced
“For example, Harvey, you go to try to influence Harvey. You just throw the data. Don't give me anything other than just data. Just tell me the data. Don't tell me the story. You got a Chris Cox. Don't just throw data at me. Tell me the story, please.”
Weinberg: 40% of Harvey's product org are senior infrastructure engineers
“And now if you look at our team, it's almost like 40% of our entire EPD org is very senior from like a data breaks or something like that, infrastructure engineers.”
Weinberg reveals OpenAI, Sarah Guo, and Elad Gil as Harvey's first investors
“So our first investor was OpenAI and then our first two angel investors were Sarah Guo and Elad Gil.”
Weinberg: AI leaders must benchmark against broader market pull, not just competitors
“One of the biggest jobs that you have is to make sure that your team doesn't feel like they've already won, right? Because the reality is the market pull is massive, and so sometimes your success isn't just your execution, it's the market pull, right? And so y…”
Weinberg: Harvey was valued at $1.5 billion in its Series C
“I think we were, it was 1.5 is what we were valued at, and our revenue was definitely lower.”
Nayak: Harvey Uses a 'Land, Expand, Lock In' Product Strategy Framework
“One framework that we have at Harvey is land, expand, lock in. What things can we build slash do to help us land new customers? What can we do to help us expand and grow usage? And then third is how do we make ourselves a moat and very sticky with customers? T…”
Nayak: Harvey Tests New Features With Internal Lawyers Before External Rollouts
“The first thing we do when we build something is. We have an extensive set of lawyers internally doing various roles. We give it to those lawyers and they test it and they give feedback and we iterate. And then we have selected design partners that are consist…”
Nayak: Approximately 20% of Harvey's Codebase Is Written by AI
“I mean, I think it's probably, it's not that much. It's probably like, 20%.”
Nayak: OpenAI is an early investor in Harvey and primary model provider
“Our models of choice are open AI right now... So they've been investors in us from the beginning. We've gotten early access to open AI Models for a long time. We've built some custom solutions with them. For the most part, that's still the case.”