Episode 60 “The No Asshole Policy" with Sarah Irwin, Founder of Irish Tech GC
About Our Guest:
Sarah Irwin is the founder of Irish Tech GC, a community for in-house lawyers in tech, and was the first legal hire at Tines before leaving to build ITGC full-time. She is also an angel investor and one of the most consistent voices online about what the in-house job actually looks like, which makes her a rare guest who can speak to both the career and the industry around it.
We get into what it takes to be the first lawyer in a business and then walk away from the title, why community is the thing legal careers are actually built on, the cringe tax that stops most lawyers ever posting anything, what she is hearing from GCs about AI right now, and how the vendor economy shapes who gets access to information in this profession.
You will leave this conversation with a clearer sense of why visibility is a career skill rather than a personality trait, and a more honest picture of what an in-house career can look like when you stop waiting for permission.
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