Cluely

“Cluley launch video was a 140,000. Yeah. It was before the raise, too, so at the time it was, like, our entire life savings.”

“We only hire one of two types of people. You're either an engineer or like a world-class engineer or you're an influencer and also like a world-class influencer with like high alcohol. There's nobody who's not a great engineer who has less than a 100,000 follo…”

“Who I am online is like the craziest person ever. I'm optimizing for one thing, and that's eyeballs on Cluey.”

“Right now we make more money off enterprise than consumer, which is pretty crazy. But I think it's because we're still warming up the marketing for consumer and they're larger customers than consumers are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the contracts, like are l…”

“We are the tool that lets you use AI without anybody else knowing. We're still invisible to screen share. We still have all our undetectability features”

“The chat bot is obviously the wrong interface. What is the correct interface? I think Apple is exploring, like every, every single smart glass company, Apple, like they're exploring the idea of AI integrated in your life. And what this looks like for them is l…”

“We did fix the mill led by Angriest.”

“Like, there's nothing that turns, like, I can, like, if you've done this, you're probably not getting any allocation, because you've, like, ticked me off, because you've just told me I do not find you important enough. I need my assistant from the fucking Phil…”

“The only reason I have the contracts that I do right now is cuz the decision makers at these enterprise companies have seen my Twitter and think I'm funny and are rooting for me.”

“Like we're literally profitable and we spent, like we spent as much money as we can. There's almost zero expense that goes unapproved by us.”

“But if the poor bet is that distribution is the most important thing, then obviously like we are the best distributing in the world right now at least in, in the early stage.”

“If you don't believe that you yourself can get to a hundred mil ARR in the next year, then you should just don't fucking build a company cause you don't have the balls to do it.”

“Like right now, like we will literally spend like 50,000 dollars a month on door dashing random food. Just so we like spend more time, like spend less time cooking because everyone is more efficient and we can like grow the product faster that way.”

“You need to work where you live if you're serious about building the company. Like work-life balance should not be a thing that you think about. Your work should be your life and vice versa. And if that's the case, then the best way to realize this is by liter…”

“The budget is essentially all of our investor money. Probably like, 80% of it.”

“50 interns never meant 50 interns. Well, not, not, not 50 actual in-person interns the same way that you think about them today, but it means, like, five interns and, like, say, 45 UGC creators.”

“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.”

“We do have some ownership requirement given the size of the fund and how big we need to believe the company becomes and There's some triangulation of where that needs to work. So maybe the founder says, Hey, like I have a need for thirty million dollars, but t…”

“We know the product has good margin. He's said a couple of times he's profitable.”

“I'm a lot less worried about it, worried about that because as you know, we, as one of my partners put it, we run into fires. Yeah. Right. We're not, we don't shy away from that. So that's okay. What I am more focused on is making sure the image and the brand …”

“Ultimately, we want to back companies that become generational and become very, very large. And a lot of the origin story of companies can be questioned when looked back in from the history or from sort of current looking back, like Facebook started was hard o…”