Jacob Lauritzen serves as the CTO at Legora, the fastest growing B2B enterprise company in history; hitting $100 million in ARR in just 18 months . Legora boasts a valuation of $5.6BN and has raised a total of $866 million in funding.
Legora’s investors include the likes of Accel, Benchmark, and Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside strategic tech giants NVIDIA (NVentures) and Salesforce Ventures.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:19 Building Engineering in 2026 vs 2024
03:44 Code Is Now Cheap: So What’s the New Bottleneck?
06:03 AI Code Review Is Still Broken
07:19 The Future Engineer: Systems Design Over Writing Code
10:28 Over 50% of Legora’s Code Is Now AI Generated
12:48 How AI Is Making PMs and Postmortems Faster
15:31 Does Taste Matter or Is It Silicon Valley BS?
17:47 You Can Build Faster Than Lawyers Can Consume
31:06 What Harvey Has Done Better Than Legora
32:47 The Developer Experience Team: The Most Underrated Hire in Engineering
34:05 Hiring Engineers in Europe vs. the US
45:44 Token Maxing: Are Enterprises Using AI Wrong?
55:13 The Crazy Prediction: Lawyers Will Work One Level Above the Contract
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