E1007: DoNotPay CEO & Founder Josh Browder built an AI lawyer to fight corporations & governments, demos product features & how it helps consumers, shares insights on following in footsteps of his father Bill Browder, & future of consumer empowerment

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

0:51 Jason intros Josh Browder & DoNotPay
2:48 Starting DoNotPay in college
6:12 How much $ has DoNotPay saved citizens since launching in 2016?
7:46 Josh explains his product roadmap to Jason
15:14 DoNotPay's mission and how Wells Fargo scammed its customers
17:37 Josh takes us through DoNotPay's suite of features starting with the robot lawyer/chatbot
19:57 Josh describes the "Skip Waiting on Hold" feature
23:37 DoNotPay's "Contract Reading AI"
28:31 Benefits of capitalist markets when consumers are treated poorly
30:51 Thoughts on Facebook?
34:05 "Hidden $ Discovery" on DoNotPay
34:47 What is DoNotPay doing for immigration
41:59 Jason asks Josh about his father, Bill Browder life and book, "Red Notice"
48:47 What is the CCPA? How does it relate to DoNotPay?
54:59 Long-term vision of DoNotPay?
56:24 Full audio of Ryan Block's call with Comcast

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1:01.2	host Jason Callicanis and this is the
1:03.3	podcast we talk about startups that are trying to change the world. One of the big
1:07.7	problems in the world is injustice and there's many levels of injustice. One of them is the average citizen and how they interact
1:16.4	with corporations, how they interact with governments, and how
1:23.1	opaque those relationships and transactions can be.
1:28.0	My next guest is named Josh Broder and he is some kind of a combination of activist and entrepreneur.
1:35.0	He doesn't run a non-profit, he runs a for-profit called Do Not Pay.com.
1:41.0	Welcome to the program, Josh.
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