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PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Partly supported
Amazon threatened to boycott Columbia unless they suspended Roy Lee
“An Amazon executive sees this. They send a letter to Columbia saying, essentially, you need to expel this kid, or we're never going to hire you from your school anymore, and it's, like, a very thinly veiled threat. Columbia sees the letter. They loop me into a…”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 14:26 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Roy Lee: I recorded myself using Interview Coder during an Amazon interview
“I record myself using it on Amazon.”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 11:29 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
SOURCERY Assertion Partly supported
Lee was expelled from Columbia and blacklisted by Amazon over InterviewCoder
“And after a certain point, I mean, I built this cheating tool. I get kicked out of school. I get blacklists from Amazon.”
Roy Lee Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 6:20 Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
TBPN Assertion Supported
Columbia suspended Roy Lee for a year after his Amazon interview stunt
“Amazon reported me to Columbia. Amazon is mad. Columbia is mad. And this ends up being a spat that I sort of publicize on my Twitter. It becomes this big spectacle and I eventually get kicked out of Columbia or suspended for a year. And I'm blacklisted from mo…”
Roy Lee Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 0:31 Cluely: the AI App to Cheat On Everything - Roy Lee
a16z Assertion Contradicted
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.”
Roy Lee Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 26:51 Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
SOURCERY Prediction Held up
AI will reason over three-hour screen recordings in two to three years
“I think it's inevitable that in about two or three years, we will have models that are multimodal, large context windows, are capable of reasoning over, say, three hours of a screen recording.”
Roy Lee Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 38:12 Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Roy Lee: Cluely raised a $5.3M seed round at a $30M valuation
“We went in thinking we're going to try to do three million dollars at thirty million valuation, but like just People kept coming in, so we had to close it at one point, so we closed at 5.3 at 30, but literally you get two more hours of investor calls and we pr…”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 18:48 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
a16z Assertion Supported
Roy Lee's parents run a Harvard admissions consulting business
“My parents literally run like a college admissions consulting company. So we literally teach kids how to get into Harvard.”
Roy Lee Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
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