logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2025
45m 25s

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal...

Y Combinator
About this episode

In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just 13 months, Max and his team scaled from 10 to 100 people, raised $80M, and cracked the challenge of selling to one of the most skeptical industries. Max shares insights on building a successful vertical AI company, selling to conservative markets, and sheds light on what the future of legal tech looks like.

Up next
Yesterday
What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software
Supabase has become one of the default backends for the AI coding era. The open source Postgres platform now has 13 million users, spins up more than a million databases every week, and roughly 70% of its new activity is coming from agents.As coding shifts from developers writing ... Show More
48m 45s
Oct 28
The New Full-Stack Designer
Marvin Schwaibold leads the product design studio at Shopify, where his team is rethinking some of the company’s most important products for the AI era. Before Shopify, he co-founded the design studio Molly, working with companies including Apple and Google and building a reputat ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 23
This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos
There’s a misconception that a successful launch video needs to cost tens of thousands of dollars and feel like a high-production commercial. But Farza Majeed has a different approach.Farza is the founder of Clicky and previously built Buildspace, one of the largest online school ... Show More
47m 8s
Recommended Episodes
Jul 2025
Gamma Co-Founder on Building Profitable AI-First Products at Scale I 270
<p>Join us for an insightful episode of The Product Podcast with Jon Noronha, Co-founder of Gamma, an AI-first platform revolutionizing how people create presentations, documents, and websites. <br/><br/>Starting in 2020 during the height of shelter-in-place, Gamma has achieved r ... Show More
38m 23s
Mar 2023
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
tail spinning
1h 25m
Feb 2024
Rethinking Legal Ops Ep #41 | Understanding & Shaping the Future of Legal Operations
🎙️ Unlock the Future of Legal Operations with Dorna Moini! In this episode of "Rethinking Legal Ops," Dorna Moini, legal tech innovator and CEO of Gavel, takes us on a journey through the evolving landscape of legal technology. 🚀 Discover the challenges, inspirations, and insig ... Show More
24m 6s
Feb 2025
How Harvey AI is Changing the Legal Industry with Winston Weinberg
This week on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Harvey cofounder and CEO Winston Weinberg. Harvey is one of the leading application layer AI companies, building domain-specific AI for law firms, professional service providers, and the Fortune 500. They are already working with compa ... Show More
49m 35s
Oct 2024
Navigating the AI Boom | Startup Finance Basics w/ Kruze's Scott Orn
Todays show: Kruze's Scott Orn joins Jason on the latest edition of Startup Finance Basics! In this episode, they break down the unique aspects and dynamics of the current AI boom, contrasting AI startup revenue, costs, and growth rates with traditional SaaS models (4:11). They a ... Show More
23m 39s
Nov 2025
Inside Harvey AI's $8 billion AI lawyer app, PLUS How OpenRouter unites the LLMs | E2207
Register for Founder University Japan's Kickoff! https://luma.com/cm0x90mk Today's show: Find out why AI is perfectly suited to legal tasks… despite being too fast for "billable hours" On today's TWiST, Alex takes a deep dive into LLM Law with Harvey AI co-founder/president Gabe ... Show More
1h 3m
Jul 2025
Startup Valuations, Biotech's Crunch & AI's Massive TAM | E2147
Today's show: It's another blockbuster panel of insiders, as Alex sits down with Astasia Myers from Felicis, Matt Turck from First Mark Capital, and D.A. Wallach of Time BioVentures. AI is reshaping early-stage investing, with startups raising record-setting rounds adn chasing $1 ... Show More
1h 16m