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A founder who sold his legal AI startup to Thomson Reuters for $650 million shares a playbook on AI innovation categories, pricing strategies, and the overlooked opportunity of enabling previously impossible tasks at scale.

He built a legal AI startup and sold it to Thomson Reuters for $650 million! Then went to Y Combinator and gave away the entire playbook for free. The three categories of AI innovation that determine whether your product gets traction or gets ignored. How to price for value instead of seats. And the category of opportunity most founders miss entirely. Not assist. Not replace. The unthinkable. Things that were previously impossible or too expensive to do at scale that AI now makes trivially achievable. That is where the next generation of multi-billion dollar companies is being built right now. This is the talk that explains exactly how. Follow @neil_xbt for more AI founder intelligence from the people who built the exits everyone else is studying.

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