3 years ago, Lawtrades was about to go bankrupt. We failed to raise a Series A. Nobody wanted to invest. This month, we closed $6M in funding ($80M valuation) from 100+ customers and investors using a link and no meetings. Here’s how it happened, step by step. 🧵👇

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Teslas have the lowest maintenance & repair costs of any brand

Accidentally said "what's your arr" instead of "how much did you raise" and they kicked me out of SF

Inflation is an indirect form of confiscation.

The moment we started referring to companies who’ve raised at a billion dollar valuation as “billion dollar companies” we helped to shift the focus of startup founders from their customers to their investors. I prefer to call companies with a billion dollars in revenue “billion

Chamath at the tech leaders dinner last night

With AI, everybody will make their own software just like how we all 3D print our own furniture.

Talking with a guy in big law: "Adopting too much AI will hurt our bottom line."

Law schools have everyone convinced that personal injury lawyers are shady ambulance chasers, and Biglaw is some kind of Rolex-wearing Illuminati. Meanwhile, PI attorneys are suing Uber, clocking out by lunch, and never panic-emailing about the misspelled footnotes on page 30 of

1/ We’re suing The Wall Street Journal for lying that Mindbloom killed Matthew Perry. When fear mongering headlines scare people away from life-saving treatments like psychedelic medicine, the toll is measured in suicides, overdoses, and broken families like mine. I lost both

lots of hype around these genAI startups doing $10M+ ARR with 3-person teams and zero sales or marketing. this isn’t the future of startups—it’s just short-term arbitrage. sure, they shipped fast, scaled quickly, and got profitable overnight. but what happens when google ships

Just wrapped an amazing LA Liquidity Workshop! Our co-founders @R44D and @AshishW203 represented Lawtrades, with Raad co-leading a roundtable on PE vs strategic buyers in M&A. The GC/CLO insights were 🔥 Collaboration like this shapes the future of legal work.

Last night's Lakers vs. Rockets game was a slam dunk 🏀 Huge thanks to our hosts for an amazing evening of networking with some of the brightest legal leaders!

Big law and in-house lawyers are leaving their jobs. AI-powered solo practices are in. Same top-tier lawyers, fewer fees, faster work, and way more personal.

A strategic LP LLM would be amazing…

just finished .@shreyas’s product sense course yesterday, and it totally rewired my thinking. it popped my ego balloon about what a ‘successful’ product actually requires and how most startup advice you read about are flat-out wrong. it taught me the startling truth that

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Professional services firms are dying from the top. Partners extract record profits while cutting 1,200+ jobs, freezing staff wages, and slashing graduate hiring by 33%. This isn't just cost-cutting - it's the last gasp of a pyramid scheme that AI will completely flatten within

it’s now happening

Last year was a special year at Lawtrades - we crossed $12M in annual revenue for the first time 🥳🚀 What makes this especially meaningful is that we faced our first-ever revenue decline the year before. Turning that around to achieve both growth and profitability has been a

AI features are destroying SaaS margins. The old 80% margin party is dead - now you're lucky to keep 65%. Companies can't pass costs to customers because competitors are eating the costs. In 2025, only those who charge for outcomes (not subscriptions) will survive.