2024
Jacob Lauritzen went through Y Combinator in 2023, and Legora went through it in 2024.
“Yeah, I was in YC 23, Legora was 24.”
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Jacob Lauritzen
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Legora has about a hundred engineers, compared with Lauritzen's earlier goal of staying at twenty.
“Uh, and we're a hundred engineers now, and it feels like we're way too small.”
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Lauritzen says the partnership model exists because a professional services firm's main capital is its people.
“Because the only type of capital that these companies have is human capital.”
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Lauritzen says some legal work, especially in the US, is moving from hourly billing to project fees.
“That a bunch of stuff is actually being priced on like a project fee and not on an hours fee.”
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Lauritzen says Legora's tabular view supports up to about a million cells.
“we do up to a million cells, I think,”
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Lauritzen says an early Google Gemini model performs very well for transcription and speaker attribution.
“Gemini, one of the early Geminis, is, uh, yeah, extremely good for certain types of, um, uh, transcription and speaker attribution.”
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Lauritzen cites legal research as a task where a post-trained open-weight model could beat frontier models on cost and latency.
“Legal research is a great example. It's like a you have to make, it's a it's a fan-out retrieval problem”
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