Roy Lee
17 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2025 by Roy Lee · across every show →
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Roy Lee: I know the Twitter algorithm better than anyone in the world
“I think I might personally know the Twitter algorithm better than any single person in the world right now. And if there is a superpower that I have, then it would be that. Well, like at the moment, like truly, truly, I think nobody else in the world has this …”
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Roy Lee: Cyclically reacting to audience outrage creates a distribution goldmine
“You have the fucking distribution potential goldmine that you get out of just making something very reactionary, and then reacting to all the reactions over and over again, cyclically, it will literally, like, spiral you up into something that you never even k…”
Aug 4, 2025
Lee: Cluely employs 500 creator interns and only five traditional interns
“If you think someone who is a creator who makes content for us part-time, gets paid for making content and the content directly converts into like it is like marketing expense, then yeah, we probably have over like 500 interns. But if you think about interns, …”
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Roy Lee: Cluely retention tripled overnight after launching live meeting notes
“Probably, like, two weeks ago, we launched live meeting notes, and that was the first, like, retention tripled pretty much overnight, and I think that's the point where we realized, like, okay, we have something that is genuinely working.”
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Aug 4, 2025 bearish
Roy Lee: Gen Z lacks the ability to socialize and do deep work
“I mean, you could just tell, like, people don't know how to fucking socialize, and I feel like people don't know how to sit down and do hard, deep, meaningful work, and people don't know how to socialize and talk with each other, and everyone is so fucking, li…”
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
Roy Lee: Immediate AI opportunity is on desktop, not VR or glasses
“Everyone thinks it's some people think it's VR, some people think it's glasses, some people think it's pendants, and I think right now there's so much money to be made in the computer, and right now, I think it all starts at the computer, so that's where we're…”
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
Roy Lee: Tech founders vastly underestimate short-form video compared to AI
“The opportunities in short-form content are much bigger than you think. I think in our generation, there are two very big opportunities, and only one of them has been fully realized, one being AI, which obviously every tech entrepreneur is on, and the other be…”
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Lee: Nobody will watch a standard product demo launch video
“If you actually do an actual sales call on, like, a genuine demo of the product, then nobody's gonna fucking watch your thing, as A, it's not interesting and, like, B, it's, well, Unless it's super informational and you just have, like, the most crazy fucking …”
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Roy Lee: Harvard rescinded my admission over sneaking out on a field trip
“Senior year of high school, I get into Harvard early action. Later that year, I get rescinded from Harvard for a suspension that I received for sneaking out of a school field trip. I, well, specifically I get rescinded because they didn't report the suspension…”
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
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Aug 4, 2025 negative
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…”