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- ▶ 0:00 Cliff Weitzman It's the biggest strategic mistake I made in the history of Speechify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23 Cliff Weitzman And we used to rent GPUs, and we found that engineers at Speechify would be parsimonious with how they use the GPUs, because they were like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 Cliff Weitzman At Speechify, we still use K-eighty's for a lot of specific operations for inference, and we use older models of GPUs constantly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Cliff Weitzman Speechify software that's providing text-to-speech and helping them, you know, read their work and dictate their work and, you know, use Speechify work, which is our newest product that's a GenTech, kind of like Jarvis from Iron Man. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Cliff Weitzman Speechify software that's providing text-to-speech and helping them, you know, read their work and dictate their work and, you know, use Speechify work, which is our newest product that's a GenTech, kind of like Jarvis from Iron Man.
- ▶ 22:19 Cliff Weitzman The thing that has always been challenging for speechifying compared to other companies is B to C customers pay a lot less than B to B customers.
- ▶ 23:09 Cliff Weitzman It's the biggest strategic mistake I made in the history of Petrify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:24 Harry Stebbings I think it's a strategic mistake for Speechify to go to B to B. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:03 Cliff Weitzman And so I think that it's too expensive for speechifying not to be playing in B to B as well as playing in B to C.
- ▶ 30:39 Cliff Weitzman Speechify is an example.
- ▶ 32:10 Cliff Weitzman We have, when we were 21 people at Speechify,
- ▶ 39:52 Cliff Weitzman So even inside of the AI team, if you build a really amazing, and this is part of why Speechify ended up winning. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:00 Cliff Weitzman There's a guy, Jason Yeager, who used to work at Speechify, and now he has, uh, my tech CEO on Instagram.
- ▶ 46:29 Cliff Weitzman Like, you want to babysit your agent basically every three hours, and the beautiful thing now is you can go work out, and the agent will tell you the answer, and then you, like, voice note back with Speechify what you wanted to do next,…
- ▶ 48:22 Cliff Weitzman Like, if you walk down the street in New York City, way more people will know Speechify than no Whisperflow, just by virtue of the fact we have way more users. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:31 Cliff Weitzman You have Speechify, 11 Labs, Gemini, uh, Grok, so SpaceX is now in the race, and, uh, Cartesia, and that's kind of it. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 20:46 Harry Stebbings We had Cliff Weitzman, who's the founder of Speechly on the show, and he spoke about how essentially he did it once, and then they use AI to change background, change his clothing,
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings In our show today, we have Cliff Weitzman, founder and CEO of Speechify.
- ▶ 3:54 Harry Stebbings How did that lead to Speechify? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Cliff Weitzman So the first, basically at every point in Speechify history, I have led every department except for AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Cliff Weitzman Um, and so for Speechify, for example, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Cliff Weitzman So our product is 140 dollars, but if you're listening to this show, hit me up, Cliff, at speechify.com, I'll give you a discount.
- ▶ 16:59 Cliff Weitzman Um, but people who are 60 and above need reading glasses, so they use Speechify a ton. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Harry Stebbings At the end of the day, I work for SpeechFind. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Cliff Weitzman So we have more than fifty million people who use Speechify now, the organic B to C product that makes it really easy to read, and we, like, if you don't download the app, and you don't start a trial, and you don't convert to paid, there's…
- ▶ 29:31 Cliff Weitzman Like use speechify to make AI generated content, AI generated, um, audio books. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:28 Cliff Weitzman So remember, like, Speechify is a voice agent's ecosystem with fifty million users and 1.1 1,000,005 star reviews across platforms.
- ▶ 42:56 Harry Stebbings Uh, what are the leading signals for you of a candidate slash person that is going to be successful at speechify?
- ▶ 46:45 Cliff Weitzman What made you interested to interview with Speechify? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 Cliff Weitzman Their mind just works differently, and actually we find that for Speechify users, if your brain works at 600 words per minute, but you only read at 200 words per minute,
- ▶ 49:55 Cliff Weitzman One thing that we do a lot in Speechify is coach people on how to use AI better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:48 Cliff Weitzman So, Speechify is an applied AI research lab that focuses on voice agents. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:17 Cliff Weitzman I'll give you an example from early, early days of Speechify. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:45 Cliff Weitzman So Speechify is our remote first team.
- ▶ 1:08:17 Cliff Weitzman And I find the same thing as Speechify.
- ▶ 1:12:24 Cliff Weitzman And like they naturally just stopped working at speechify because they didn't keep communicating. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:13 Harry Stebbings Can you just help me understand, what did the, like, fundraising profile look of this business? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:16 Cliff Weitzman 178,000 people applied to open engineering positions at Speedify last year. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:10 Cliff Weitzman Um, and I had eight people working on the leadership team at Speechify at the time.
- ▶ 1:30:53 Cliff Weitzman When we started Speechify, I was living in Palo Alto.
- ▶ 1:36:15 Cliff Weitzman Uh, but I was not ready for hiring them for speechify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:01 Cliff Weitzman like, once users probably started to use Speechify, it stopped being a business and started to be a charity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:17 Cliff Weitzman If you need a wheelchair, you're not going to churn from your wheelchair in the same way that people don't churn from Speechify.
- ▶ 1:41:07 Cliff Weitzman Um, obviously you could do the same things with Speechify, but like they just did such a good job with the marketing, organic, like incredible, great growth story. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:25 Cliff Weitzman And he's like, I'll do this many speechify integrations.
- ▶ 1:51:33 Cliff Weitzman I will say that in the last 24 months, half of the content that I've consumed is deep research outputs from Speechify, where I go, hey, give me a comparative analysis of Catholicism versus Protestantism versus Mormonism versus Islam, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56:23 Cliff Weitzman And my team, by the way, it's like, Speechify is one live organism around the world.