Cliff Weitzman is the CEO + Founder of Speechify, a text to speech mobile & desktop app.
Topics :
- Lifestyle changes due to the Pandemic
- Self coaching himself to believe he could do anything he put his mind towards
- Visualizing his future self
- Valuing people that can help complete thoughts
- Listening to 100+ audio books per year
- The benefits of listening & learning : Get through material faster & retain it better
- Best way to increase memory : stories
- Listening to books at 3.5x the speed
- Developing Speechify in college to solve his only problem
- It takes just as much effort to build a huge business as it does to build a small one
- Importance of building a business that creates value & impact
- Impact AirPods have on the audio industry / where the industry is headed
- Using Speechify customer data to recommend pieces relevant to them
- Struggling to sleep because of the excitement he has for his work
- Surrounded by a 5 person executive team & 36 full-time employees
- Setting long-term goals & having his team tell him what he needs to unblock to get there
- Speechify offering 30 different languages / voices with celebrity voices to come next
- Tricks to stay focused while listening intensely
- Daily routines : Count macros, live with people that are more motivated than you,
- Value in sending cold emails / DM’s
- Best ways to regain motivation : Calling his family or listening to Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
- Area of his life he needs to put more effort into : Music
- First step to reaching your inner potential : Listen to two audio books per month
- Challenge for the listener : Write down 30 goals you have for your life & collapse them into 3 folders
- Attributing a large portion of his success to being sober his entire life
Connect with Cliff!
Instagram : @CliffWeitzman
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Website : Speechify.com
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