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

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:

00:00 — Until You Hit $100K Do Not Spend on any Channel Other than Meta

04:53 — How I hacked the college system by applying to 26 universities

06:33 — The "Great Guy" yearbook prank that accidentally outed me

08:35 — What I learned from hunting down the top 100 CEOs in the world

11:51 — The "Warrior" rule: Why I force my senior leaders to edit their own ads

13:52 — Why companies are like bodybuilders: The Bulking and Cutting cycle

17:34 — I test 1,000 AI-generated ads every single day

20:13 — How I built a custom AI ad platform in just four days

23:19 — The one $3,000,000 ad I filmed in a hot tub with red headphones

32:15 — Why we will soon spend more on AI tokens than employee salaries

34:55 — "I'm disappointed in you": The 1,000-credit daily AI requirement

36:31 — How LLMs helped me find my father's cancer when doctors couldn't

41:13 — Why 40% of billionaires are dyslexic—and why you should be too

45:41 — Why I refuse to hire anyone who has worked at Google

47:05 — I flew into a war zone in Ukraine just to keep one engineer

55:49 — Why performance reviews are a total waste of time

58:32 — QA is the most valuable skill in the world (and you're probably bad at it)

01:03:59 — Why we keep our valuation and funding a total secret

01:07:51 — The "Virus" Strategy: How Logan Paul hijacked the WWE

01:11:32 — What I learned from sleeping at Mr Beast's house for three weeks

01:14:15 — How we made a 36X return on Nvidia using high-leverage options

01:23:44 — I found the hacker who stole $200k—then I hired him

01:32:45 — Why I spent 11 days sleeping in a Walmart parking lot