Harvey

“We didn't go to any other VCs or anything like that.”

“Every, you know, like three to six months, you have to completely redo how you do prioritization as a leader, I think. And if you don't, you're really going to start messing things up.”

“When I get really bad at it, I ask my chief of staff to force me to write a paragraph about why I'm going to take a meeting, full paragraph about why I should take a meeting. And it's so easy if you do it that way, because for 99% of meetings or events or what…”

“The idea was basically we were gonna buy this company that ended up, it was 10 times bigger than us, people-wise and about the same, like, we were gonna, trying to buy the company For the same, a little bit higher valuation than we are valued at. We tried to b…”

“No one at the company ever has been let go because they made too many mistakes. It's never happened. I've, I have personally never done it. I've never, ever fired someone or anything like that because they made too many mistakes.”

“Once you get to a certain level of distribution, and by that I just mean some customers know who you are, founders should spend almost all of their time on product. All, like, as much as possible. The biggest mistakes I've ever made as a, as an exec are I step…”

“Remember in like Q three of last year, I wrote this like long doc and it was like the vision for the product for like five years or whatever, a long time. And I think it was interpreted as like, okay, we should go build that right now is a huge mistake. And we…”

“On 86 out of a hundred 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, or so we need to do something in this industry.”

“I think I was told to hire senior executives very, very early on, and I refused, and then I refused too long. I refused, like, I'd say about six months too long, but if I would have taken the advice when it was given, I think it would have been a huge mistake.”

“And I think that there are just so many folks that have these such prestigious backgrounds and they've never gotten a B in their entire lives, like ever probably. Right. And so they think everything is the end of the world. Right. And you can't hire people lik…”

“That's what I'm seeing across our company just massively where like the people who were, I already thought were like 10 X are now a hundred X. And so I do think you're seeing like the power law of ability just increased by a lot.”

“Like if there is a part of the company that is running super well and there are no bottlenecks, I ignore it entirely, like absolutely entirely. And I try to only focus on the things that are like burning. And I try to focus on like the number one thing that's …”

“The riskiest version of this is we did it during our series A pitch to Sequoia, where Sequoia grabbed a bunch of lawyers that they knew, and they had us demo to them. And I just, I remember Pat Grady emailed me afterwards and was like, is that what you normall…”