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. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Why Speechify Is Spending Tens of Millions on Its Own GPUs 07:12 - Why Buying GPUs Can Be Better Than Renting Them 12:28 - Are NVIDIA’s Circular Economy Fears Overblown? 13:49 - What No One Understands About Buying AI Chips 18:26 - Why Owning Compute Can Become a Competitive Advantage 20:55 - How Big Can the AI Data Market Become? 22:59 - How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Speechify 25:23 - Is Speechify Making a Mistake Going Into B2B? 30:17 - Why Every Winning AI Company Becomes a Compound Startup 31:10 - Is This the Hardest Time Ever for Startups to Hire Great Talent? 37:26 - How AI Is Completely Changing Software Engin...