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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman appears in 2 indexed conversations across 20VC. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Speechify's Weitzman on owning GPUs, ElevenLabs, and the AI talent war
Speechify’s owned-GPU strategy compares $35,000–50,000 annual H100 rental with roughly $30,000 to buy, potentially lowering compute costs.NVIDIA’s deal with Blackstone, BlackRock, Apollo and Goldman Sachs could create a liquid secondary market and price floor through buybacks up to 25% of GPU value.Weitzman calls missing B2B his biggest strategic mistake; Simba 3.2 costs $10 per million characters versus ElevenLabs’ $100, but execution against an “unstoppable” rival remains unresolved.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries
Speechify expects token spending to exceed engineering salaries next year, with great companies reaching that point in 3 years.It tests 1,000 AI-generated ads daily plus 8,000 human creatives monthly on proprietary tooling and is among 200 companies provisioned for OpenAI ads.Single-digit inference costs versus Eleven Labs’ $70–100 support profitability, but undisclosed valuation and the OpenAI-Anthropic contest remain key watchpoints.