Gabe Pereyra

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  Gabe Pereyra - President & Co-Founder of Harvey - The Frontier with Brendan Foody

  September 18, 2026 · 📺 Mercor

  Gabe Pereyra is co-founder and president of Harvey. He was a researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind before starting the company with Winston Weinberg. He and Brendan discuss why big law firms wanted the early product and startup lawyers didn't, the mistake of chasing custom models too early, why partner red lines are the closest thing legal work has to unit tests, what it costs to build a single synthetic data room, and whether there will be more lawyers in five years. Harvey started as a text box wired to a model that wasn't public yet, shown to law firms under NDA. Four years on it runs a…

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  How Harvey Built a Research Lab on a Budget | Gabe Pereyra

  August 11, 2026 · 📺 Sequoia Capital

  How does an application company compete with frontier labs that have more money, talent, compute, and data? At Sequoia Capital’s Own Your Intelligence event, Harvey co-founder and president Gabe Pereyra shares the playbook: leverage the frontier ecosystem instead of building everything yourself. Gabe walks through how Harvey built its research lab, starting with benchmarks like LegalAgentBench and its open-sourced diligence dataset, using domain experts to guide synthetic data generation, partnering with multiple neolabs for post-training, and building the serving and evaluation infrastructur…

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  Why Smarter Models Aren’t Enough

  July 22, 2026 · 📺 Baseten

  In this conversation, Gabe Pereyra, President and co-founder of Harvey, joins Baseten’s co-Heads of Training Charlie O’Neill and Mudith Jayasekara to explore the research and infrastructure required to build specialized legal AI systems. Their discussion covers why agents today struggle with search and long context windows, and how techniques like KV-cache compaction, synthetic data, and continual learning could help. 0:00 Introduction 0:36 Getting legal agents to review the whole data room 2:08 Data rooms larger than any context window 5:28 How far open-source models can go 7:58 Where speci…

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  Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI

  June 18, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

  Gabe Pereyra is the co-founder and President of Harvey. Before Harvey, he was an AI researcher at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, working on deep learning at both Brain and DeepMind in 2016 and 2017 as the field was taking off. Valued at $11B, Harvey has passed $300M ARR, 960 employees, 2,000 customers, and roughly 13 trillion tokens processed this month. Harvey has raised over $1.2B to date from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, Coatue, Elad Gil, the OpenAI Startup Fund, and GIC, with Sequoia and GIC co-leading the most recent $200M round at $11B. Niko Grupen is Harvey's Head of Applied Resea…

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  What Makes a Category-Defining AI Company with Gabe Pereyra (Harvey AI) + Sangeen Zeb (GV)

  May 05, 2026 · 📺 Startup Grind

  In a market flooded with AI assistants and thin wrappers, only a few companies will become truly durable. Harvey's President + Co-founder, Gabe Pereyra, and GV's General Partner, Sangeen Zeb, dive into how today’s most durable AI companies are built, going deep on painful, high‑value workflows, establishing real product and data moats, and resisting the pull toward “yet another AI assistant.” They’ll explore the journey from early product‑market fit to global scale, sharing how founders evolve go‑to‑market and organizational design while maintaining trust, reliability, and quality—and how a st…

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  Will This $11B AI Startup Disrupt Big Law?

  May 03, 2026 · 📺 Prof G Markets

  Today on the Prof G Markets Founder Series, Ed Elson speaks with Gabe Pereyra, President and co-founder of Harvey, a legal AI startup. They break down what AI can realistically automate in law, how quickly that shift could happen, and what’s likely to slow adoption. They also discuss how Harvey has built trust with major firms despite being a young company. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:13 Interview with Gabe Pereyra 01:18 What is Harvey? 02:20 How did you come up with Harvey? 03:38 How can AI be useful to the legal industry? 08:33 How did law firms react to the potential of Harvey? 12:39 What t…

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  Legal Is Next: Inside Harvey's Bet on Autonomous AI Agents with Gabe Pereyra

  April 09, 2026 · 📺 Infodash

  In this LinkedIn Live, Ted Theodoropoulos (CEO, Infodash) sits down with Gabe Pereyra, (Co-Founder, Harvey), to explore how autonomous AI agents are reshaping the legal industry. Gabe shares insights from his background at Google Brain and DeepMind, and breaks down how Harvey is evolving from traditional prompt-based AI into powerful agent-driven workflows that can plan, iterate, and execute complex legal tasks with minimal human input. Together, they unpack: What “AI agents” actually mean and why the definition is still evolving The shift from deterministic workflows to autonomous, self-di…

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  First Block: Interview with Gabe Pereyra, Co-Founder and President of Harvey

  February 18, 2026 · 📺 Notion

  For an audio-only podcast, transcripts, and a custom Notion x Harvey template, please visit: https://ntn.so/st638j To learn more about how Notion is supporting startups, please visit: https://ntn.so/tuy3w3 Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey—and what they learned from that experience. In this episode, we spoke with Gabe Pereyra, Co-founder and President of Harvey. Harvey is an AI platform built for large law firms and their clients, helping thousands of lawyers…

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  When Will Lawyers Trust AI? An Interview with Gabe Pereyra, President & Co-Founder of Harvey AI

  January 27, 2026 · 📺 AI and the Future of Law Podcast

  Can lawyers really trust AI to do legal work? In this episode of AI and the Future of Law, hosts Jen Leonard and Bridget McCormack are joined by Gabe Pereyra, President and Co-Founder of Harvey, one of the most influential legal AI platforms in the world. Together, they explore how generative AI is moving from a productivity tool to core infrastructure for law firms—and what that means for trust, training, profitability, and the future of legal judgment. The conversation covers why hallucinations are no longer the main barrier to AI adoption, how law firms are rethinking the billable hour, a…

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  Roommates to Billionaires: Harvey Founders Gabriel Pereyra & Winston Weinberg on Building AI for Law

  January 20, 2026 · 📺 LawNext

  Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their company has grown into a global enterprise serving more than 1,000 law firms and corporate legal departments and valued at a whopping $8 billion. In this episode of LawNext, Pereyra and Weinberg take us back to Harvey's earliest days, when they were sending thousands of LinkedIn messages…

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  Inside Harvey: The Future of Legal AI — with Gabe Pereyra

  December 22, 2025 · 📺 Monday Bagel: Legal Tech & AI Insights

  In this episode of Monday Bagel, I speak with Gabe Pereyra, co-founder and President of Harvey — one of the most influential AI platforms transforming how law firms work. Harvey started as an AI copilot for lawyers. Today, it is evolving into a legal operating system powering entire law firms, client collaboration, and large-scale legal workflows. Recently valued at over $8B, Harvey works with top global law firms and was built in close collaboration with OpenAI. I ask Gabe how AI is changing legal workflows, collaboration with clients, billing models, and the role of lawyers — from junior a…

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  No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra

  December 04, 2025 · 📺 No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

  In just over three years, Harvey has not only scaled to nearly one thousand customers, including Walmart, PwC, and other giants of the Fortune 500, but fundamentally transformed how legal work is delivered. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Harvey’s co-founder and president Gabe Pereyra to discuss why the future of legal AI isn’t only about individual productivity, but also about putting together complex client matters to make law firms more profitable. They also talk about how Harvey analyzes complex tasks like fund formation or M&A and deploys agents to handle research and drafting, the s…

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