# Winston Weinberg

Co-founder and CEO, Harvey. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. 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. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/harvey-ceo-winston-weinberg-reearn-roles-career-advice-ai-tech-innovation-eleven-billion-dollar-startup-sam-altman-openai-backed/))

- Education: JD, Law, University of Southern California, 2021; Kenyon College, 2017 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/winston-weinberg))
- Career: Harvey (Co-founder and CEO, 2022 to now); O'Melveny & Myers (Associate, securities and antitrust litigation, 2021–2022) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/winston-weinberg), [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/author/winston-weinberg))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/winston-weinberg/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/winston-weinberg

- Was a first-year litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers when he left in 2022 to start Harvey. ([lawnext.com](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html))
- Started Harvey with his roommate Gabriel Pereyra, a former Meta and Google DeepMind researcher, in their San Francisco apartment. ([lawnext.com](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html))
- A cold email to Sam Altman got the pair early access to GPT-4 and backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/harvey-ceo-winston-weinberg-reearn-roles-career-advice-ai-tech-innovation-eleven-billion-dollar-startup-sam-altman-openai-backed/))
- In the earliest days he and Pereyra sent thousands of LinkedIn messages just to get anyone to look at the product. ([lawnext.com](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html))
- 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](https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/podcast-harvey-winston-weinberg))
- On competing with OpenAI and Anthropic: "The base case is you're gonna get run over." ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/winston-weinberg/))