20Product: Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO @ Legora
Jacob Lauritzen serves as the CTO at Legora, the fastest growing B2B enterprise company in history; hitting $100 million in ARR in just 18 months . Legora boasts a valuation of $5.6BN and has raised a total of $866 million in funding. Legora's investors include the likes of Accel, Benchmark, and Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside strategic tech giants NVIDIA (NVentures) and Salesforce Ventures. AGENDA: 05:01 - How to Hire the Best Product Talent in 2026 06:21 - The New Product Bottleneck: Shifting Beyond Code Creation 09:24 - System Design vs. Code Creation: The Future Role of the Engineer 14:04 - The Evolving Software Development Lifecycle & The Death of the Design Phase 22:23 - Will Product and Engineering Fully Converge? 29:16 - Scalability and UX: Designing for 10x vs. 100x Spikes 38:15 - Scaling the Organization: What Breaks with a 250 Person Product Team 47:05 - Quick-Fire Round: Hyper-Growth Tactics & Out-Working the Giants