Ep 056: Mark Harris, Axiom Founder and Now Knowable CEO

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nineteen years ago,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-harris-9908133/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mark Harris</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-guettel-041b131/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Alec Guettel</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">founded</span> <a href= "https://www.axiomlaw.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Axiom</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a pioneering service to provide on-demand legal talent to corporate legal departments, growing it into a company with a roster of more than 2,000 lawyers that works with over half of the Fortune 100, while also developing technology and managed services arms.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last February, gearing up for a possible IPO,</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/02/alternative-legal-service-company-axiom-prepares-ipo-spins-off-two-companies.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Axiom spun off</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">its technology and managed services entities into two new companies:</span> <a href= "https://www.knowable.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Knowable</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, which uses machine-learning technology to help companies better understand their contracts, and</span> <a href="https://www.axiomlaw.com/managed-solutions"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Axiom Managed Services</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(AMS), which offers people, processes and technology to provide outsourced legal help to companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the spin-off, Harris and Guettel moved to Knowable, with Harris as CEO and Guettel as CTO. In July, Knowable announced that it had</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/07/lexisnexis-gets-into-enterprise-contract-analytics-through-joint-venture-with-knowable.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">entered into a joint venture agreement<