Speechify CEO on self-built data centers, ElevenLabs leapfrog, and the $15M AI talent war
20VC · rss · 2026-09-05
- 20VC interviews Speechify co-founder & CEO Cliff Weitzman. Speechify is a leading AI voice/TTS platform with 60M+ users; Weitzman built it at Brown to cope with dyslexia.
- Topics: why Speechify pays millions to build its own data centers, insider knowledge on buying chips, and the brutal business-model problem of the AI data gold rush.
- He reflects on how ElevenLabs leapfrogged Speechify, the $15M AI talent war and the new 10X engineer, voice-AI commoditization, why the screen is dying, and his plan to use AI to cure his brother's disease.
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