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Sep 5, 2026

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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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