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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)

Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, shares insights on building a successful vertical AI company for the legal industry. He discusses their product strategy, the technical stack designed for a multi-model future, the go-to-market motion for conservative industries, and the challenges of scaling from 10 to 100 people in 13 months.

Inside the little-known expert network quietly training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord

Inside the little-known expert network quietly training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord

Garrett Lord, CEO of Handshake, details the company's extraordinary pivot from a college career network to a dominant AI data provider. He explains how they leveraged their proprietary network of 500,000 PhDs and 3 million advanced degree holders to build a business on track to surpass $100 million ARR in its first year by providing high-quality, expert-generated data for training frontier AI models.