Podcast appearances and mentions of ryan alshak

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Ryan Alshak, CEO & Founder of Laurel, a Gen AI timekeeping platform that has raised $55.7 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Laurel's Core Offering: Laurel automates timekeeping for professional service firms like law, accounting, and consulting. By shifting from manual to AI-driven time tracking, Laurel helps users save time and ensures companies bill and collect for all work performed, boosting profits by 4-11%. The "Aha" Moment: Ryan's inspiration to create Laurel came from his own frustrations as a lawyer, where tracking time in six-minute increments felt dehumanizing and inefficient. He realized a machine should be reminding professionals of their work, not the other way around. Overcoming Enterprise Resistance: Ryan emphasized that competing with large incumbents in the enterprise space requires not just great technology but also building trust and social proof to overcome buyers' fear of adopting new solutions. Change Management & Flexibility: Initially, Laurel tried to force users into a new workflow. They pivoted to offer multiple ways to track time—manually, through automation, with timers, or via delegation—meeting users where they are to drive adoption. Importance of First Principles in AI: Ryan believes incumbents are struggling to adapt to AI because they're retrofitting it into legacy systems. Building AI-first, Laurel delivers a superior user experience, which Ryan sees as critical to winning in the AI space. Founder-Led Sales to 8-Figure ARR: Laurel's journey to $10 million ARR has been driven by a founder-led sales approach, with a small but focused team. Ryan emphasized the unique learning advantages this approach provides, enabling faster product iteration and market fit.   //   Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe.  www.GlobalTalent.co  

As Time By Ping, a company devoted to helping lawyers break free from timekeeping, announces its Series B raise of $36.5 million, cofounder and CEO Ryan Alshak joins LawNext for an exclusive interview about the financing, the company, and its mission to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back time in their days.  As Alshak shares in the interview, the roots of the company's mission are very personal to him. Soon after starting the company, his mother fell ill with cancer, causing him to balance managing a startup and spending time with her. After her death in 2018, he found inspiration for the company's mission: to give people back time in their days to be with the people who are important to their lives.  He wrote about his mother and how she inspired him in a moving 2018 essay, “Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning how to dance in the rain.” In our LawNext interview, Alshak describes how Time By Ping's time-automation software can free lawyers from manual timekeeping. He also discusses how this latest financing round will help the company pursue its longer-term vision, which is to rebuild the model for how lawyers work from selling time to selling outcomes, and eventually to focus their effort on creative work in ways that best leverage their most important asset.  Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.  Legalweek 2022, returning in person to New York City March 8-11, 2022, Legalweek will bring together thousands of legal leaders for a week-long program featuring TED-style focus talks, workshop boot camps, and panel sessions across 21 tracks and 74 sessions. Paradigm, home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, and MerusCase, and e-payments platform Headnote. If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It's a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill. And it leaves lawyers stuck manually filling out timesheets after a long day when they want to go home to their families. Life is already short, as Ping CEO and co-founder Ryan Alshak knows too well. The former lawyer spent years caring for his mother as she battled a brain tumor before her passing.

Haley interviews Ryan Alshak, who left his job practicing at a top law firm in San Francisco, and Eric Zaarour whom he convinced to drop out of law school right before taking the bar...all to start a company called Ping, the first automated timekeeping solution for large firms and recently ranked legal tech startup of the year by the American Bar Association. Oh, and you also get to witness Haley try and freestyle about fungus. It gets weird real fast. Follow Ryan on Insta here: @ryanalshak Follow Eric on Insta here: @ericzaarour  ---------------------------------------------------------- Hailing from the heart of Studio City, Haley Ringo hosts LAnded, a weekly Late Night show that shares the stories of doers, dreamers, and creatives living in Los Angeles. Along with monologues and fan-favorite games, each week she interviews diverse line-ups of successful guests who bring their dreams to life all while dealing with the realities of trying to make it in LA. ---------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW HALEY: https://www.instagram.com/haleyrynnri... FOLLOW LANDED: https://www.instagram.com/landedlaten... FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LAndedLateNight Watch LAnded Late Night with Haley Ringo every Tuesday 8PM PST/ 10PM CST!    

In this episode we talk to Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Dennis Garcia about legal department automation, the benefits of cloud computing and steps law firms can take to shore up cybersecurity. Dennis also discusses lawyers’ use of social media. We also introduce a new segment for the podcast. Starting with this episode, we will include a short interview with a legal tech founder. We start with Ryan Alshak, a lawyer and the founder of Ping, automated time keeping for attorneys. Technically Legal is hosted by Chad Main, an attorney and the founder of Percipient, a tech-enabled alternative legal services provider.

I spoke with a number of the participants from the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, including: Ryan Alshak, the CEO of Ping, an artificial intelligence-supported timekeeping and analytics platform for enterprise-level time and billing at law firms; Alex Hewitt, the director of operations for vTestify, a web application that enables lawyers to conduct depositions and gather testimony remotely; Tunji Williams, the co-founder and CEO of DealWIP, a cloud-based workflow integration platform for corporate legal matters; and, David Schnurman, the CEO of Lawline, a leading provider of continuing legal education, who shared insights from his upcoming book – Break Through Your Walls: Bring Your Entrepreneurial Sledgehammer. We discussed lessons learned in 2017, how the legal industry will shift in 2018, and ways that legal tech start-ups take advantage of new technology, changing expectations, and general market trends in the New Year.

I spoke with a number of the participants from the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, including: Ryan Alshak, the CEO of Ping, an artificial intelligence-supported timekeeping and analytics platform for enterprise-level time and billing at law firms; Alex Hewitt, the director of operations for vTestify, a web application that enables lawyers to conduct depositions and gather testimony remotely; Tunji Williams, the co-founder and CEO of DealWIP, a cloud-based workflow integration platform for corporate legal matters; and, David Schnurman, the CEO of Lawline, a leading provider of continuing legal education, who shared insights from his upcoming book – Break Through Your Walls: Bring Your Entrepreneurial Sledgehammer. We discussed lessons learned in 2017, how the legal industry will shift in 2018, and ways that legal tech start-ups take advantage of new technology, changing expectations, and general market trends in the New Year.

I spoke with a number of the participants from the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, including: Ryan Alshak, the CEO of Ping, an artificial intelligence-supported timekeeping and analytics platform for enterprise-level time and billing at law firms; Alex Hewitt, the director of operations for vTestify, a web application that enables lawyers to conduct depositions and gather testimony remotely; Tunji Williams, the co-founder and CEO of DealWIP, a cloud-based workflow integration platform for corporate legal matters; and, David Schnurman, the CEO of Lawline, a leading provider of continuing legal education, who shared insights from his upcoming book – Break Through Your Walls: Bring Your Entrepreneurial Sledgehammer. We discussed lessons learned in 2017, how the legal industry will shift in 2018, and ways that legal tech start-ups take advantage of new technology, changing expectations, and general market trends in the New Year.

I spoke with a number of the participants from the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, including: Ryan Alshak, the CEO of Ping, an artificial intelligence-supported timekeeping and analytics platform for enterprise-level time and billing at law firms; Alex Hewitt, the director of operations for vTestify, a web application that enables lawyers to conduct depositions and gather testimony remotely; Tunji Williams, the co-founder and CEO of DealWIP, a cloud-based workflow integration platform for corporate legal matters; and, David Schnurman, the CEO of Lawline, a leading provider of continuing legal education, who shared insights from his upcoming book – Break Through Your Walls: Bring Your Entrepreneurial Sledgehammer. We discussed lessons learned in 2017, how the legal industry will shift in 2018, and ways that legal tech start-ups take advantage of new technology, changing expectations, and general market trends in the New Year.

Ryan Alshak, CEO at Ping talks with Mary Juetten in this Evolve Law member spotlight. Ping is automating timekeeping and analyzing data for law firms solving the biggest pain point of tracking billable hours. For the latest topics, trends and tech in the legal industry, subscribe to the Evolve Law Podcast: A Catalyst for Legal Innovation. Listen as legal experts and leaders share insights about the legal industry. For more information, questions, or suggestions about our podcast feel free to email us at info@evolvelawnow.com Links and Resources from this Episode For additional information of this episode go to evolvelawnow.com/show Connect with Ryan https://www.timebyping.com https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ryan-alshak https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-alshak-72815722 Evolve your legal practice with technology Access the Legal Tech Toolkit Show Notes Background of Ping - 0:24 How did you figure out this legaltech problem - 1:12 Tell us more about your main customers and how long Ping has been alive? - 2:17 Where did you find the tech expertise for Ping? - 3:00 Do you have any feedback or case studies you can share with us? - 3:47 Do you have any metrics with time savings you can share with us? - 5:00 Review and Subscribe If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite player to get the latest episodes. Click here to subscribe with iTunes Click here to subscribe with Stitcher Click here to subscribe with RSS