I built my startup after three decades in law. I couldn’t have done it at 25
A lawyer with 30 years of experience founded a legal AI company, arguing that age and deep expertise are advantages over youth.Summary
The author challenges the common startup narrative that founders must be young and inexperienced. After a three-decade career in law, she built MiAI Law, a legal AI company. She argues that the very things that seemed like disadvantages—such as being an Asian woman in a male-dominated field—became the foundation for her success. Her deep understanding of legal reasoning, developed over decades of reading thousands of cases, allowed her to identify a critical bottleneck: the law has grown too complex for human cognitive capacity. She believes she could not have built this company at 25 because she lacked the necessary depth of experience to see the problem and the resilience to persist through setbacks. Ultimately, she views experience as a form of compression that condenses decades of failure and judgment into valuable insight.
(Source：Smartcompany)
