I think that Max from Legora, Andy from Stokespace, either one of those founders, I think, are incredible founders that are, you know, one of them is building in a, actually, both of them are building a very difficult industry. One of them is building in the legal space. And I think they're both just good examples of, like, being, like, the top 1% in your field looks like.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — legora
bullishinterpretationassessmenton Legora
And then all of a sudden, like you get Legora and you get Harvey and like they're selling to lawyers like it's easier than selling to any anybody else. Right. And so I do think that AI has made a lot of these things very, very different.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — legora
bearishinterpretationassessmenton Legora
And honestly, in like 2024, I felt that like legal AI was already like a tired space. You had a number of companies competing for it. And then the idea of funding that in Sweden was just like crazy to me.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — legora
bullishfactfact_claimon Legora
Like with Max from Legora, every time I spoke to him, there were new customers closed.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — legora
bullishpromotionendorsementon Legora
And then you meet Max and you're just like, well, you know, I don't really care. I just want to be in business with this founder.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — legora
neutralfactfact_claimon Mercor
whether Stripe, Andrew, Lapp and Mercore, these were all seed investments for us.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — mercor
bullishinterpretationassessmenton Mercor
we're very fortunate that in our portfolio, we have many companies like that, whether it's like Circle or Android, literally all the companies I was talking about, like Mercor and Stripe, all of these companies are massive, massive businesses.
— 520. The Inner Workings of Seed Investing at GC, Why Sector Focus Can Be Limiting, Why Seed Milestones Are Obsolete, and Who to Hire Among Your First 10 Employees (Yuri Sagalov) — mercor