Cliff Weitzman

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4,305 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Sep

Cliff Weitzman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 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 · 5 Sep 2026 podcast

And there's essentially a difference between when you do inference and when you do training.

For training, I'm like, okay, I have this hypothesis.

I want to know the answer to this hypothesis as soon as possible.

Like every minute that it doesn't come out, I'm in competition with everybody else.

And so having a GPU.

GPU architecture that is much faster by orders of magnitude is a huge advantage.

But if you go speech to text or text to speech with speechify, I can afford to give you a lower quality GPU and it'll give you what you need still in 100 milliseconds.

So it's like totally good.

And so I can always use these older GPU models for inference.

That's number one.

Number two, we have so many experiments that we're running at every single point in time.

Not all of them need to run on like the newest

Hardware.

So the analogy I always give, let's say you bought an iPhone back in 2011 and it's an iPhone 3G.

And then you bought another iPhone and another iPhone and another iPhone.

You could have a drawer in your house with like five iPhones that are collecting dust because you can only use one iPhone at a time.

But if I own a hundred thousand GPUs, I'm still going to use all of them at the same time.

And so I'm not losing anything by having more GPUs because not only do I own a bunch, I still rent from the hyperscaler.

All the time.

And I rent both dedicated instances that I prepaid for and I rent spot instances.

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