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Roy Lee: Replace marketing heads with fewer than 100k social followers
“If any company in the world has a marketing team and the head of marketing does not have a 100,000, at least a 100,000 followers. Like, you need to replace them. Like the game has changed.”
Lee: Strong distribution eliminates the need to interview users
“I feel like you don't, like if your distribution is strong enough, you don't need to like talk to your users. You just need to look at their data.”
Roy Lee predicts Cluely will achieve better distribution than OpenAI
“If the question is about distribution, then I think there's actually, like, a pretty strong case for us to make that we will actually end up distributing better than OpenAI, and It's enough that you could probably bet on us at like, well, like a 30,000 X disco…”
Roy Lee: Cluely generates more revenue than the latest YC batch
“We wrote our first lines of code 10 weeks ago. We're, like, earlier than the latest YC batch of companies, yet we're, like, generating probably more revenue than every single one of them, and, like, the product is, like, it's literally two and a half months si…”
Roy Lee: Tech workers on X and LinkedIn misunderstand video algorithms
“I think it's growing increasingly clear that people on ex-LinkedIn are behind, and there's such a very, extremely small intersection of people who understand how developed the algorithm is on, like, Instagram, TikTok, and people on tech, like, Twitter, LinkedI…”
Roy Lee: Future startup founders will overwhelmingly be Gen Z creators
“You're not gonna get more millennial founders. You're only going to get more Gen Z founders. And I guarantee you, Their backgrounds and content are the exact same as mine, and they know exactly what I'm doing, and I'm sort of like the canary that's leading the…”
Roy Lee: Every full-time Cluely employee has over 100,000 social followers
“There are only two roles. You are either a world-class engineer who's building the product or you're a world-class influencer. And for a full time every single person has over a 100,000 followers on some social media platform.”
Roy Lee: $20,000 in short-form video equals Super Bowl ad reach
“Look, we pay very little money for the amount of views that we get, and different companies, like, they're paying literally millions of dollars for Super Bowl ads when you can get the same quality and quantity of views. 20,000 dollars.”
Roy Lee: Cluely reached $1M enterprise revenue within 10 weeks
“We wrote our first lines of code 10 weeks ago. All of a sudden we have like over a million dollars of enterprise revenue coming in.”
Roy Lee lost early Harvard acceptance after police escorted him back
“I got accepted to Harvard early, and then later that year, I was just always doing crazy shit, and I snuck out of a school field trip past curfew, like, the police had to come and escort me back, because we were out at, like, two a.m., we were all, like, 1617,…”
Roy Lee: Translucent liquid glass overlays are the future AI interface
“I think everyone's going to inevitably get the translucent overlay. This is how an integrated AI should feel, and, like, Apple shows everyone that, like, liquid glass is the translucent overlay that, that, that, that will be the form factor of AI in the future…”
Roy Lee: Companies will continue becoming more controversial and less professional
“Every company is getting less and less... Sorry, more and more controversial. Yeah. Less professional. This trend is not dying anytime soon.”
Roy Lee: Instagram requires more controversy for virality than X
“And this is something that I've said before, but I guarantee, like, my videos do not go as viral on Instagram, like, Instagram TikTok. And the sole reason is because on those platforms, they are not controversial enough.”
Lee: Predecessor tool Interview Coder reached 250 million impressions
“What we realized after we got about, like, two hundred fifty million impressions on the whole scenario is, like, wow, we just got so many eyeballs on this thing”
Lee: Cluely has surpassed 1 billion total content views
“And as a result, like now we're past like a billion views overall on clue.”