The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Cliff Weitzman is the co-founder and CEO of Speechify, the world's leading AI voice and text-to-speech platform, used by more than 60 million people globally. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, Cliff first built Speechify at Brown University to help him consume written material through audio.
AGENDA:
Cliff Weitzman Reveals His Biggest-Ever Strategic Mistake
Why Speechify Is Paying Millions to Build Their Own Data Centres
What No One Knows About Buying Chips That Everyone Should Know?
The AI Data Gold Rush Has a Brutal Business-Model Problem
How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Speechify—and Why It Was Cliff's Fault
The $15M AI Talent War: Can Startups Still Compete for the Best Talent?
The New 10X Engineer: Ten Killer Decisions Every Day
The Voice-AI Bloodbath: Who Survives Commoditisation?
The Screen Is Dying—and Voice Will Replace It
How Cliff Plans to Use AI to Cure His Brother's Disease
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