Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the Best CEOs in the World | What I Learned from Staying with Mr Beast for 3 Weeks

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.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:

• 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