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What Would The CEO Do? The Start-Up GC’s Mindset With Jonathan Levy, Y Combinator (E73)

What Would The CEO Do? The Start-Up GC’s Mindset With Jonathan Levy, Y Combinator (E73)

Update: 2025-07-22
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Y Combinator is the tech incubator that has launched many of today's largest companies–Airbnb, DropBox, Door Dash, Open AI and many, many others. Jonathan Levy, Managing Director and former GC of YC had a role in many of them. On this episode of The Legal Department, Jonathan shares how legal can support start-up companies and help shape the future. He talks about adopting a CEO's mindset, keeping your opinions (and attitude) in check and not letter fears of what might go wrong prevent you from seeing what might go right. YC is also seeding several legal tech companies–Jonathan shares his thoughts about some of these and why they might disrupt the current market leaders. Join us for another episode on how lawyers support innovation.



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What Would The CEO Do? The Start-Up GC’s Mindset With Jonathan Levy, Y Combinator (E73)

What Would The CEO Do? The Start-Up GC’s Mindset With Jonathan Levy, Y Combinator (E73)