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Lee: Cluely signed million-dollar enterprise deals because buyers found my Twitter funny
“Yeah, I mean, like, especially on Twitter, like, we literally signed million dollar enterprise contracts because people think my Twitter is funny.”
Lee: Content creators under 100k followers are an uncaptured pricing arbitrage
“People get, are super underpaid right now for their ability to make viral content, and right now this delta has not been captured by anyone. So when you hit someone up and say, hey, are you interested in a paid content opportunity, and they're regularly making…”
Roy Lee: Cluely scaled from zero to $5M ARR in three months
“Interview Coder launches February first, and right now it's, like, hovering at around two millier R. Cluey launches April twenty-th, and right now it's up in, like, a little over two months. Probably, like, almost three months now, and Cluey has gone from zero…”
Lee: Ambient contextual overlay is probably the future UX of all AI
“The more we realize this is actually probably the correct UX for all AI interaction in the future.”
Roy Lee: Cluely has a strong shot at winning next-gen hardware distribution
“And like from then on, it literally just replaces your computer. And I think like once, once we get to a point of like truly replacing the computer and like being a completely new graphical interface for technology. And at that point we have a very strong shot…”
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…”
Roy Lee: Cluely averages 80 million monthly views on Instagram and TikTok
“I think we're averaging somewhere around eighty million views a month on there.”
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 …”
Roy Lee: Standalone AI companions will never be a real product category
“I don't think that's where it will go. Like, I feel like standalone AI humans is like never going to be a thing. I think every, like, I feel like every conversation is not driven by like the context, bro. Like, I feel like this is a human conversation that we …”
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, …”
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.”
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…”