I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

America should have a universal job guarantee. We have so much work to do as a country. We should have centers that I can show up to at 7am with my ID and get assigned work for the day. Trash clean up, food pantry distribution I mean the possibilities are endless

Anthropic just integrated Harvey AI as a connector inside the same release that ships 12 plugins doing what Harvey does. Harvey raised $200M in March at $11B. Legora raised $600M Series D last month. Their pitch: legal-specialized AI built on top of frontier models. That value capture only works if the model layer underneath stays neutral. It didn't. Tuesday's release: commercial counsel, employment counsel, litigation associate, plus 9 other practice-area plugins. Plus MCP connectors to Westlaw, CoCounsel, Box, Everlaw, DocuSign. The exact workflow stack Harvey and Legora built their valuations on, shipped natively inside Claude. Then Anthropic integrated Harvey itself. Which makes Harvey a data source feeding into Claude. The model layer said yes to powering Harvey. The model layer said yes to integrating Harvey. The model layer also said yes to shipping every product Harvey ships. Per Anthropic AGC Mark Pike, legal is already the #1 power-user job function inside Cowork with 3x the usage of any other function. A single webinar on legal teams using Claude pulled 20,000 registrations. Legal AI was already running on Anthropic. Tuesday removed the middleman. The next $11B legal AI valuation is the one nobody raises.