Speak

I sat down with @connorzwick , founder and CEO of @speak. We talked about what it takes to build one of the most ambitious consumer AI companies in the world and how AI is about to completely reshape how software companies are built. Today Speak does $100M ARR with over 15 million worldwide users... This was an insanely great episode, you'll hear a lot about: Why Connor flew to South Korea after realising the country spends ~1% of GDP learning English! If the application layer is where the biggest AI companies will be built How Speak built for AI YEARS before the recent boom The danger of “magical thinking” and why most founders are focusing on the wrong things Why smaller, faster teams will dominate in the AI era You’re going to want to see this. Links below!

Seeing millions of learners around the world use Speak to build fluency and confidence has been the most rewarding part of the journey. Crossing $100M ARR is an exciting milestone and one step toward our goal of building the world’s best superhuman AI language tutor. What's next? We’re deepening our push in the US, expanding into new languages and growing our enterprise arm. Join us, we're hiring! forbes.com/sites/rashishr…