Joshua Browder – DoNotPay

Joshua Browder is a 28-year-old, British, gen z entrepreneur who founded the company DoNotPay. DoNotPay is an online artificial intelligence legal services company. In 2015, Joshua fought his first parking ticket in London. While in London, he had received numerous parking tickets that he had to fight. At the time Joshua was a student attending Stanford University majoring in computer science. Because of his background in coding, Joshua had the idea of creating a website that took answers from a type of questionnaire and used them to make legal documents. Now instead of writing up tons of documents appealing Joshua’s parking tickets, he could simply generate use his website to create multiple appeals quickly. Joshua officially founded DoNotPay in 2015. He dropped out of Stanford once DoNotPay gained traction and was awarded the Thiel Fellowship which helped young entrepreneurs with their business. After DoNotPay had helped over a hundred thousand people with their parking tickets, DoNotPay expanded into more legal services such as refunds on flight tickets, cancelling subscriptions, and many more. Their total number of automated consumer rights processes are over 200. Overtime the system that DoNotPay used to find out the information for a customer’s situation evolved into a chatbot and then finally into what it uses today artificial intelligence. DoNotPay eventually raised 10 million dollars from investors in 2021 and reached a valuation of 210 million dollars.  As of 2023, DoNotPay has said to have processed over 2 million legal cases. DoNotPay is continuing to grow with Joshua still as their CEO.