20VC: Inside Legora: $100M ARR in 18 Months | Jude Law Generated $50M in Sales Pipeline: The Economics Broken Down | Competing Against Harvey, the 800 Pound Gorilla | Why Legora is Undervalued at $5.5BN with Patrick Forquer, CRO @ Legora

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4.4 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Forquer is the Chief Revenue Officer at Legora, the fastest growing enterprise business to ever hit $100M in ARR and now on track to hit over $250M in ARR by the end of the year. They recently raised a $550 million Series D at a $5.55 billion valuation, led by Accel, note 20VC did participate and is an investor in the company.

AGENDA:

0:00 – How Jude Law Generated $50 Million in Qualified Pipeline

4:00 – Why Implementation is Your Secret Weapon to Win in AI

5:50 – Why AI Enterprise Sales Require "Legal Engineers"

7:45 – The 6-Figure Rule: When Should Humans Control Sales

12:55 – Is Legora Vastly Overvalued at $5.5BN?

15:45 – How to do global expansion in a world of AI

18:00 – How to Win Supremely Competitive Markets

24:45 – Why Giving Your Product Away for Free is a Death Sentence

33:55 – Legora's Onboarding and Training Playbook for Sales Teams

38:25 – Spotting Red Flags: How to Know if a Sales Rep Will Fail in 45 Days

46:30 – How to Structure Sales Commissions in a World of AI

49:40 – How to do Revenue Forecasting in a World of AI

1:00:30 – Will companies vibe code solutions and no longer buy a SaaS products?

Transcript

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0:00.0	How much did the deal cost?
0:02.0	We generated over $50 million of qualified pipe. We had so many leads that we weren't able to follow up with them. When I started, we were at 40 people. Today we're over 500. When we get into a deal, when we get into a pilot, we convert pilots 78% of the time into a close one opportunity. Death match on every deal. It's super competitive. We've got to
0:22.0	play defense and offense at the same time, and that's what makes it fun. Every two weeks, we have a
0:26.3	new higher class. And at this point, it's between 40 and 50 people joining every two weeks. This market
0:32.3	is being made right now. This is one of the hottest markets of all time. Our average attainment last year was 280%.
0:40.6	It's more about time than money right now.
0:43.1	When you have momentum and you have an advantage, press the advantage.
0:46.5	This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings.
0:48.4	And joining me in the hot seat, we have Patrick Fouca, CRO at Lagora, the fastest growing enterprise business ever to hit 100 million
0:56.6	in ARR, and now on track hit 250 million in ARR by the end of the year. Unparallel growth,
1:03.1	which led to a $550 million Series D at a $5.5 billion valuation led by Excel. Note 20 VC did participate in this round,
1:13.2	and this conversation took many twists and turns,
1:15.7	including how a Jude Law advert generated $50 million of pipeline for the company.
1:22.9	Get your notebooks out.
1:24.3	This is a masterclass in company scaling.
1:26.6	But before we dive into the show today, you have the idea, but often with AI tools, you hit a wall.
1:31.3	Well, Base 44 is where that friction disappears, turning how you talk into how you build.
1:36.3	Full stack web and mobile apps, sites, autonomous super agents, all built in minutes, not weekend spent on damn configuration.
1:45.5	Base 44 ships it all out of the box, the back end, the database, the authentication and the hosting.
1:51.1	It handles the heavy lifting so you can just stay in the flow.
1:54.0	It doesn't just replace the busy work, it multiplies you.
1:57.2	It makes you so much more capable, an effective version of yourself.
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