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. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:56 Applying to 26 Colleges: Cliff's Volume of Work Philosophy 03:20 Building Speechify: Dyslexia, Deep Learning & 10 Million Books a Year 05:35 Flying Around the World to Meet 100 Consumer Subscription CEOs 10:46 Companies Have Bulking and Cutting Cycles 14:31 How Speechify Thinks About Paid Ads & CAC 30:18 Why OpenAI Ads Will Be Massive 31:11 Why Cliff Would Buy Meta Today 34:57 Why Speechify Is Moving From Cursor to Claude Code 38:22 How AI Helped Cliff Diagnose His Dad's Cancer 41:01 Building an Internal AI-First Engineering Culture 56:13 Are You Worried About AI Layoffs? 58:44 Why 60-Second Response Times ...