#742 - Building a $100M AI Startup in 3 Months — Roy Lee (Cluely)

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Roy Lee, founder of Cluely, went from being kicked out of Columbia to building a company valued at over $100 million in just three months. In this episode of The Tai Lopez Show, Tai and Roy dive into the rise of AI, the future of work, and how tools like Cluely are changing everything—from job interviews to billion-dollar business models.

They debate whether AI will make humans the “pets” of machines, how AI might replace teachers and therapists, and if brain-chip integration is the inevitable next step. They also cover the marketing strategies behind Cluely’s explosive growth, where short-form content and growth hacking meet AI scale.

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0:00.0	Sigmund Freud said, be careful with people who seem too virtuous on the outside,
0:05.0	because they're more most likely to have demons on the inside.
0:09.0	And eventually they just kicked me out of school.
0:12.0	Three months after you were kicked out, you've got a company that VCs value at over 100 million
0:17.0	and they wire you 15 million bucks.
0:19.0	CatchyBT is estimated to have 1100 IQ right now.
0:23.2	And the only thing that we're lacking is the ability for AI to remember longer than five minutes of context.
0:29.4	Will AI create more billionaires than ever or eliminate them?
0:33.9	You won't make big money.
0:34.7	You got two choices.
0:37.4	Here in my garage.
0:41.2	Welcome everybody to the Tai Lopez show.
0:43.6	Got a fascinating guest, Roy Lee from Cluelly.
0:47.3	Now, you may not have heard of him, but you probably have because he's a growth hacker, genius, and one of the fastest people to building a company valued over 100 million.
0:59.9	That's only three months old.
1:02.0	That's nuts.
1:02.9	That does not happen a lot.
1:04.2	So thanks for coming on the show.
1:06.1	Yeah, thanks for having me.
1:07.0	We're going to talk on AI.
1:08.3	We're going to talk about making money.
1:16.6	We're talking about what Cluey does and the future of AI in general. So let me ask you this question.
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