The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: What I Learned from 100 of the Best CEOs in the World | What I Learned from Staying with Mr Beast for 3 Weeks | How We Will Spend More on Tokens than Salaries 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 Founder & CEO of Speechify AI. He solved his dyslexia and ADHD in college by building a Voice AI agent that's now used by over 60 million people and has over 1 million five-star ratings. Over 200 software and AI engineers work on Speechify which won the Apple Design award last year.
AGENDA:
— Until You Hit $100K Do Not Spend on any Channel Other than Meta
— How I hacked the college system by applying to 26 universities
— The "Great Guy" yearbook prank that accidentally outed me
— What I learned from hunting down the top 100 CEOs in the world
— The "Warrior" rule: Why I force my senior leaders to edit their own ads
— Why companies are like bodybuilders: The Bulking and Cutting cycle
— I test 1,000 AI-generated ads every single day
— How I built a custom AI ad platform in just four days
— The one $3,000,000 ad I filmed in a hot tub with red headphones
— Why we will soon spend more on AI tokens than employee salaries
— "I'm disappointed in you": The 1,000-credit daily AI requirement
— How LLMs helped me find my father's cancer when doctors couldn't
— Why 40% of billionaires are dyslexic—and why you should be too
— Why I refuse to hire anyone who has worked at Google
— I flew into a war zone in Ukraine just to keep one engineer
— Why performance reviews are a total waste of time
— QA is the most valuable skill in the world (and you're probably bad at it)
— Why we keep our valuation and funding a total secret
— The "Virus" Strategy: How Logan Paul hijacked the WWE
— What I learned from sleeping at Mr Beast's house for three weeks
— How we made a 36X return on Nvidia using high-leverage options
— I found the hacker who stole $200k—then I hired him
— Why I spent 11 days sleeping in a Walmart parking lot
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