Joshua Browder – The Gen Z Prodigy

Joshua Browder, a British entrepreneur, founded DoNotPay in 2015, a mobile application that provides legal services to the members for a monthly payment, which makes use of artificial intelligence. As a bridge between humanity and technology, Browder also created an app to tutor lawyers based in Africa, on how to successfully safeguard economically disadvantaged clients.

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The twenty-four-year-old began the start-up whilst attending Stanford University and the app was initially designed to help the public appeal parking tickets or cancelled flights etc. The company has now valued an estimate of two hundred and ten million dollars with support from Andreesen and is available on the UK and US markets.  

The ‘Robin Hood of the Internet’ was brought up in England but always had a dream to travel to Silicon Valley. Whilst at university, Browder taught himself the ins and outs of coding, a subject he always took great interest in. ‘I always knew I wanted to tinker with projects as an engineer, but I fell into my company, DoNotPay by accident, by getting all these parking tickets.’

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Browder’s father took to Russia to invest in capital in his childhood. ‘I think the scariest aspect was when my father devoted everything to fight the Russians and it’s one thing to go after like maybe like government bureaucrats or have legal problems but it’s another thing to go after the mafia and so lots of scary things happened. He was deported, his lawyer was murdered, and it really taught me to be fearless in life, it puts everything into perspective.’  

The ‘robot lawyer’ entrepreneur wants to make technology a place of practicality and bring the positive aspects of technology to the legal system. After seeing negative aspects of the internet community, like algorithmic sentencing, Browder wants to give back power to the people.