Winston Weinberg
Co-founder and CEO, Harvey
A lawyer by training, he and his co-founder cold-emailed Sam Altman, which helped their legal AI startup Harvey get early access to GPT-4.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Co-founder and CEO, Harvey
- Studied
- University of Southern California, Kenyon College
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Was a first-year litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers when he left in 2022 to start Harvey.
lawnext.com - Connection
Started Harvey with his roommate Gabriel Pereyra, a former Meta and Google DeepMind researcher, in their San Francisco apartment.
lawnext.com - Turning point
A cold email to Sam Altman got the pair early access to GPT-4 and backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund.
fortune.com - Numbers
In the earliest days he and Pereyra sent thousands of LinkedIn messages just to get anyone to look at the product.
lawnext.com - Detour
In early 2024 Harvey nearly merged with a more traditional company ten times its size; he now calls the failed deal a lucky escape from a huge mistake.
upstartsmedia.com - In their words
On competing with OpenAI and Anthropic: "The base case is you're gonna get run over."
time.com
Career
- HarveyCo-founder and CEO2022 to now
- O'Melveny & MyersAssociate, securities and antitrust litigation2021–2022
Education
- JD, Law, University of Southern California, 2021
- Kenyon College, 2017