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In January 2017, in @atlblog, I made a bold prediction: "By 2027 the legal industry will produce many billionaires, but few, if any, will be practicing attorneys." Nearly 10 years later, I'm back on Above the Law to see how it aged.
Legal tech has now minted 16 unicorns. So … I like my odds. A LOT.
Next up: tracking down the legal tech founders I profiled back then. One had a nearly billion-dollar exit, another runs legal for OpenAI, and at least one probably became a sommelier, which is also relevant to us lawyers.
Full column: abovethelaw.com/2026/10/wher…
@LexFusion @Baretz+Brunelle
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Genie 4 is quite an insane experience, generating game-like enviornments as you go. It isn't flawless but I can type "Neogothic brutalist city inhabited by robots and horses" & it creates one in a minute. Then I asked it to add dragons. Then a friendly otter NPC. All in realtime
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Replying to @ArtemisConsort
Infuriating.
NYC becoming anti-innovation against the will of the citizens.
I love the Amish. They let people go live a modern life and decide if they want to come back.
We haven’t had such a choice here in NYC.
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Replying to @tradedny
Asinine idea on top of a pile of economically illiterate asinine ideas.
Replying to @jborstein @tradedny
The 9 no votes on COPA (Int. 905-A) were: Joann Ariola, David Carr, Simcha Felder, James Gennaro, Frank Morano, Vickie Paladino, Inna Vernikov, Phil Wong, and Susan Zhuang. (2 abstained: Kamillah Hanks and Mercedes Narcisse.)
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The only way to make sense of the world right now
Is to understand we’re approaching the singularity
Spacetime is becoming more curved, and relative times are disturbed
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Turnout in the first few hours of voting in Israel’s election is the highest it has been in 45 years, the country’s Central Elections Committee said. cnn.com/2026/10/27/world/liv…
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Hell yeah!! The great age of discovery is upon us.
Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
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Can be hard to internalize if you’re not from a business family:
In most cases, you really don’t need permission.
Create an offer for a product or service at a price where you think can profit, put it out there, watch carefully how potential customers respond, then course-correct.
Legaltech folks (and ok lawyers too). Let’s have some fun.
I’m taking fake bets on what Anthropic will IPO at. Closest without going over gets free legal tech opinions from me.
I’m guessing $1.5 Trillion.
How about you @ZachAbramowitz? @biglawbro?
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@SMB_Attorney
@UTDealAttorney
@gordon_cassie
@scottastevenson
@NickJRishwain
@jack_newton
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My quick takeaways on the Anthropic S-1:
1. This is a historical moment
2. $6.6M in revenue per employee!! Hard to even comprehend how good that is but Anthropic is AI native as it gets so makes sense.
3. I always thought OpenAI would drop their S-1 first
4. Customers spend about 9x more after a year. Net Revenue Retention is approximately 900% as of Sep 30, 2026. Good SaaS companies brag about 120%.
5. Cowork is growing faster than Claude Code did. Goes to show you the demand for consumer products. Duo will probably rip.
6. 3 years ago this company did $41M in revenue. In the first six months of 2026, it did $16.3 billion. I don't think anyone has a mental model for that curve yet, I sure don’t.
7. Nearly half of revenue comes through cloud marketplaces. About 48% comes from customers buying through them. Big companies buy where their budget already lives, and the lesson for founders selling to enterprises is to get listed where your buyers already spend.
8. Their run rate formula is published: the last 28 days of usage times 13, plus subscriptions times 12, which i guess is the new ARR math for founders?
9. It looks like They're merging Cowork into Claude dot au which tells you the chat box era is ending and the "go do the work for me" era is here.
10. Thousands of Anthropic employees are about to become liquid at once, so expect the biggest wave of new AI startups and angel checks San Francisco has ever seen. Reminds me when Facebook went public but this is way bigger.
Let’s go!
11. Buried in the filing, Anthropic says the gap between what Claude can do and how widely it's used is one of its biggest growth opportunities, so the company itself is telling you the models are ahead of the market and someone has to close that gap for dentists, landlords, and plumbers.
12. Whatever happens, exciting times to be building in AI.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
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.@jack_newton kicking off #ClioCon in Boston
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The only reason Macro works so well is because we're in our own form of RSI loop
- The whole team uses it all the time, so we get human QA for free from smart people. The team really likes what we're building and uses it 8+ hours a day, so everyone has good intuitions
- When there are bugs in the product we spawn most of our agents from Macro - this is also how we know that agents are working well, and if there's issues we spawn more agents to fix the agents
- Customer feedback comes in through support channels directly to founders and we can kick off agents right from those support channels
Marketing -> user feedback -> coding agents -> merge, all within Macro





























