{"id":4052,"date":"2026-04-16T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:54:26","slug":"harveys-30-year-old-ceo-says-failing-is-a-good-way-to-learn-and-led-him-to-an-11-billion-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Harvey\u2019s 30-year-old CEO says failing is a \u2018good way to learn\u2019 and led him to an $11 billion success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How do you build an $11 billion startup? For Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of AI legal startup Harvey, it\u2019s all about failure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really hard to figure this out without failing. You just have to fail a million times,\u201d Weinberg said on a recent episode of Fortune\u2019s Term Sheet podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old founder is a lawyer by training. But that all changed in 2022 when he left his job at a securities and antitrust law firm to start Harvey, a startup that builds AI tools for lawyers. Since then, he andGabriel Pereyra, a former Meta and Google DeepMind AI research scientist, have earned the backing of the OpenAI Startup Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that success didn\u2019t come without plenty of failures along the way. And that, he said, is what changed his relationship to wins and losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just you have to have a bunch of wins and then have a lot of failures. But you have to get good at taking some time to actually analyze: What did you do right? What did you do wrong?\u201d Weinberg explained. \u201cMost of that is destroying your ego 24\/7.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t shy away from failing, he said, adding \u201cit\u2019s a very good way to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments echo a long-held mantra of successful founders, from Bill Gates to Mark Cuban: learn from your failures. Weinberg deals with failure by having high ambitions, and high standards. Wins and losses hold less weight when there is a long-term goal in mind, he explained. He takes this tack with his staff as well. He explained that it can be an adjustment working with him because he will call out 15 failures in a day, which can surprise some people because they\u2019re striving for perfection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not care about perfection. I care about rate of improvement,\u201d Weinberg said. \u201cThat\u2019s all that matters because otherwise, what you\u2019re going to end up doing is you\u2019re going to hire a bunch of people that are really good for six months, and then if they aren\u2019t improving, then it\u2019s irrelevant, because your business has changed massively.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weinberg said that Harvey\u2019s staff, including himself, have to \u201cre-earn\u201d their positions every six months to survive in an industry where if a company isn\u2019t innovating fast enough, it will lose, he explained. More than the technology, Harvey\u2019s decisive culture is what matters to him most, he said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you have to basically build a company that has a culture of making decisions very quickly and being okay to make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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