Cliff is the CEO & founder at Speechify, a text to speech audio reader. It's currently ranked No.2 in magazine and newspaper category on iOS app store.
Cliff was dyslexic; he could not read as a child. When he was a student at Brown, he wrote an app that turned text to speech. The app helped him read and understand thousands of pages for school. The software later became speechify, a product that now helps millions of people around the world read faster and better through listening.
I invited Cliff because his stories shed new lights on what we should do with our life and what ideas to pursue when we feel lost in sea of possibilities.
Cliff’s response is: build what you needed the most when you were a child.
1:42: Early years: building 38 products at Brown
3:22: Speechify’s genesis
5:53: How Cliff validated market demand for another TTS app
7:26: A self-created Youtube campaign that got 13-million views
8:55: Why Cliff went all in on Speechify & obstacles he faced
14:29: How Speechify helped Cliff find his purpose
16:20: How to manage fear and uncertainties as an entrepreneur
17:53: How to run a global, distributed team & vision for the company
Reference
https://speechify.com/
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