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Zach Posner

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The LegalTech Fund · 1 appearance on the record.

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Zach Posner is a serial entrepreneur and investor who co-founded The LegalTech Fund, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage startups transforming the legal industry. He also co-founded the annual TLTF Summit and has backed dozens of companies operating across legaltech, fintech, and workflow automation.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Zach argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Posner: Combined legal markets represent over $1 trillion in annual spend
“You put these things together and you're north of a trillion dollars a year. These are very big markets.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 7:08 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Posner: No other fund globally focused on legal tech at 2020 launch
“And as we realized there was nobody else in the globe thinking like this or being there as a solution for entrepreneurs in this vertical, we said that can be us. So we planted the flag in late 20, early 21 and been off running pretty hard ever since.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 2:43 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Zach Posner on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Zach Posner said on Innovators & Investors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Posner: AI will crush the traditional law firm partner-to-associate leverage pyramid
“So we think that right now the law firm model says you have one partner, you have five associates. And we think that pyramid or that leverage model may get squeezed a little bit and you may see roles and responsibilities changing.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 6:51 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Insight
Posner: Feature requests mean your product's core pain isn't severe enough
“And the fact that people are asking you for other things probably indicates that your pain point's not big enough.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 19:27 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Opinion
Posner: Massive venture funds are forced to artificially deploy capital
“I think that the more dollars you have, you see some of these massive funds, which we're proud not to be, that they're forced to like artificially deploy certain amounts of capital.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 24:31 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Assertion Contradicted
Posner: No other fund globally focused on legal tech at 2020 launch
“And as we realized there was nobody else in the globe thinking like this or being there as a solution for entrepreneurs in this vertical, we said that can be us. So we planted the flag in late 20, early 21 and been off running pretty hard ever since.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 2:43 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Posner: $346 hourly attorney rates versus $19 median wages break legal access
“The average attorney rate in this country is about 346 dollars per hour. The median wage is 19 dollars per hour. So what that means is nobody can afford access to this, to legal services in this country.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 5:02 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Posner: Corporate legal departments face unprecedented budget pressure to adopt technology
“That legal suite is the last one. That really has not been, had any budget sensitivity over the years in a meaningful way. And you're starting to see that pressure get applied.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 6:17 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Assertion Supported
Posner: Combined legal markets represent over $1 trillion in annual spend
“You put these things together and you're north of a trillion dollars a year. These are very big markets.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 7:08 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Insight
Posner: Revenue-generating software disrupted enterprise before back-office functions
“The ones that fell the quickest were the ones that Are in or around generating revenue. So if you think about the first type of technology that I think about in a meaningful way, it's probably like CRM technology. When sales technology designed to help acceler…”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 7:45 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Insight
Posner: Complexity, licensing, and habits delayed legal software adoption
“I can tell you that the work that attorneys do is extraordinarily complex. And they, and these are, there's a higher level of professionalism in this country. It requires additional education. It requires additional certification. With that comes more of peopl…”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 8:18 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Posner: Early-stage venture capital is heading toward a wave of thematic funds
“We think at the earlier stage, the more thematic a fund is, the more the fund can actually help to drive positive impact for the companies. So like we're hopefully part of that wave in the middle of it. But I think that's a big wave that's coming.”
Zach Posner Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 23:36 4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner

The other half of the tape: Zach Posner's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 2 episodes on Innovators & Investors. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Direct Nov 12, 2024 18m
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