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'Tell People Your Goals!': The Secret To Accomplishing Anything - Cliff Weitzman

2024/2/29
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Cliff Weitzman:作为一名患有严重诵读困难症的布朗大学学生,我亲身经历了阅读障碍的困扰。为了解决这个问题,我开始学习编程,并开发了Speechify应用,它可以将文本转换为语音,帮助人们更轻松地阅读。经过多年的努力,Speechify 发展成为拥有2400万用户、100多名员工的成功公司。在这个过程中,我不断学习新的技能,例如广告投放和团队管理,并通过与其他成功人士交流学习,不断改进产品和提升公司发展。我坚信,只要持续努力,专注于一个方向,就一定能够克服困难,取得成功。 我的创业理念是:不依赖广告盈利,专注于新技术,为有阅读障碍的人创造价值。我通过公开写作、参加会议、与用户直接沟通等方式,不断改进产品,并吸引用户。我始终坚持学习,不断提升自己的能力,并组建了一支优秀的团队。 Ali Abdaal:我非常钦佩Cliff Weitzman的毅力和决心,他克服了诵读困难的挑战,并创立了一家成功的公司。他的故事告诉我们,学习能力、对产品的热情、对团队的忠诚度以及快速发布功能和提升指标的能力是成功的关键。在创业过程中,持续学习和与其他成功人士交流学习至关重要。

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Cliff Weitzman discusses his early life, struggles with dyslexia, and the inspiration behind starting Speechify.

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Have you ever wondered how CEOs manage to pull off the impossible and achieve their wildest dreams? Do you have goals that seem so huge you don't think you'll ever accomplish them? Well today's guest is relentless about pursuing his goals, and along the way he has achieved some incredible things. Cliff Weitzman is the founder and CEO of Speechify, the text-to-speech software used by 25 million people worldwide and is growing to rival Audible. Cliff started this company as a student, with the simple mission of making reading more accessible for people with learning differences - and since then the company has gone from strength to strength. This is Cliff's second appearance on Deep Dive, and in this conversation you'll hear all about how Cliff built Speechify from scratch, how to found your own company, and how Cliff sets his goals - and achieves them. Enjoy x

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(00:00) Intro(00:40) Cliff's journey (13:37) Learning how to code(20:15) How Cliff built his network (41:00) Building Speechify (56:13) Scaling Speechify (1:02:49 How to found your own company (1:11:55) Do you need a work-life balance when starting a business? (1:20:11) Goal-setting (1:33:00) Overcoming challenges (1:33:42) Understanding ADHD (1:44:36) Audiobook innovations (1:58:37) The benefits of Speechify (2:00:38) Fitness insights (2:11:25) Cliff's relationship with money

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