Adrian Nicholas Radu

companies like Harvey will have to pivot from verticalized saas into specialized agent harnesses built for purpose think claude code for… legal healthcare finance erp etc. who’s building this?

Maybe I'm old fashioned but it's wild to me that Anthropic's $30bn raise was bigger than the biggest IPO of all time (Saudi Aramco raising $29bn)

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