20VC: From Only OpenAI to Die-Hard Anthropic: The Downfall of OpenAI in Enterprise | Harvey vs Legora: Legal AI is a Winner Take All | $7M ARR in a Single Day and Raising $200M Across 3 Rounds with No Deck with Max Junestrand, CEO @ Legora

**Max Junestrand** (0:00)
It doesn't really matter who was first. It matters who's best. It's totally a winner takes all. Number one will grab 90%, and number two to number 10 will share the remaining 10%. Got to run like hell. You got to win. There's no number two. There is only being number one. There's only winning. Everything else is losing. In a single day in 2025 in December, we added 7 million of ARR one day in 24 hours.
And that was more than what we did in 2023 and 2024 combined.

**Harry Stebbings** (0:32)
This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. And what a show we have in store for you today. Last week we had Harvey on the show. That broke pretty much all records. This week we have their biggest competitor, Legora on the show. And joining me is Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, the legal AI company that has scaled to 70 million in ARR, 750 of the world's biggest law firms as customers, and over 300 employees in just two years. They've raised over 200 million dollars from some of the best, including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Redpoint, and Iconiq, to name a few. But before we dive into the show today, over 80% of Fortune 100 companies are running their businesses with Airtable. Airtable combines AI with the scale of an award-winning, infinitely flexible no-code system, a platform where you can see all of your data in one place, and use it to make really big picture decisions. Think of it like mission control for your company. Airtable goes beyond organization and automating repetitive tasks. It lets you use your data to inform strategy, monitor progress and take action. Every cell is capable of performing hundreds of AI-powered tasks, like web research or localization, and using those results to inform and update hundreds or thousands of other cells and workflows in real time. Unlock the true scale of your workflows at www.airtable.com/20vc, Airtable, the infrastructure of innovation. And just like Airtable organizes your workflow data, Metaview organizes your conversation insights. This episode is brought to you by Metaview. Who says hiring has to be fair? Every founder, VC and exec I speak with knows this. Your ability to hire is the biggest constraint on your company's growth, but recruiting is slow. It's subjective and only getting more competitive. And that's why teams like Eleven Labs, Brex, Replit, Deal and 5,000 other organizations use Metaview, the AI company giving high-performance teams a real unfair advantage in hiring. Metaview's built a suite of AI agents that behave like recruiting coworkers. They proactively find candidates. They take interview notes automatically and they help you surface the best candidates in process. For the first time, AI handles the recruiting toil and gives you a single source of truth. That means hours saved per hire and a team focused on what matters most, winning the right candidates as fast as possible. Don't let your competitors out hire you. Metaview customers close roles 30% faster. Try Metaview today and get a free month of sourcing at metaview.ai/20vc.
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You have now arrived at your destination. Dude, we did our last show and I have to admit, I was so surprised, this sounds awfully rude, but it's the end of the day, fuck it, by how well it did in specifically this incredible founder community, where I got pinged by like 300 or 400 founders, which is more than normal actually.

**Max Junestrand** (5:01)
That sounds like a big number.

**Harry Stebbings** (5:02)
Yeah, it's pretty solid and mostly it's just kind of VC's. But thank you so much for agreeing to do a second show with me.