Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers

Harvey scales past 2,000 employees by year-end while betting culture and speed depend on employee trust, not process.

• Hyperscale hiring: Harvey has added over 1,000 employees in a year, will hit ~2,000 by year-end, with 70% of staff having started after January 1, 2025; VP Maggie Landers's own recruiting team grew from 16 to 80 people.
• Three core values drive speed: Simplicity, decisiveness ("we don't take the square root of the weather"), and "jobs not finished" underpin a culture that prizes fast iteration over consensus-building or perfectionism.

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