20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify

20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify

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:

00:00 Cliff Weitzman Reveals His Biggest-Ever Strategic Mistake
03:08 Why Speechify Is Paying Millions to Build Their Own Data Centres
09:59 What No One Knows About Buying Chips That Everyone Should Know?
20:19 The AI Data Gold Rush Has a Brutal Business-Model Problem
23:42 How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Speechify—and Why It Was Cliff's Fault
31:00 The $15M AI Talent War: Can Startups Still Compete for the Best Talent?
36:57 The New 10X Engineer: Ten Killer Decisions Every Day
46:12 The Voice-AI Bloodbath: Who Survives Commoditisation?
53:21 The Screen Is Dying—and Voice Will Replace It
57:58 How Cliff Plans to Use AI to Cure His Brother's Disease

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