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Cluely
- Cluely is betting big on compensation to recruit top-tier talent.
- “Please be world-class,” said the cofounder of the AI startup that promised to help people “cheat on everything.”
- Chungin “Roy” Lee also said he’ll be “reviewing every application by hand.”
Cluely, the AI startup that promised to help people “cheat on everything,” is betting big on high compensation to recruit top-tier talent.
Chungin “Roy” Lee, the CEO and cofounder of Cluely, wrote on LinkedIn this week that the San Francisco startup is offering engineers up to $1 million in base salary and $250,000 to $350,000 for designers. Both job descriptions also list equity.
Entry-level engineers in San Francisco typically start at $75,000, with senior engineers earning up to $235,000, according to a startup compensation guide by Kruze Consulting. Designer salaries range from $80,000 to $150,000 for junior roles and $100,000 to $172,000 for senior positions.
“A startup truth I disagree with is that you shouldn’t pay high cash comp,” Lee wrote in a post on Thursday.
The traditional startup hiring model was to “pay everyone below market, give them a tiny bit more equity, sell them on the ‘mission,'” Lee said. But to win, a startup has to be “elite at everything, including comp.”
Cluely launched earlier this year as a tool to help software engineers cheat on their job interviews, among other use cases. Lee made headlines after he was suspended by Columbia University for posting content from a disciplinary hearing.
Cluely has since removed references to cheating on job interviews from its website. It still positions itself as an “undetectable” AI that sees its users’ screens and feeds them answers in real time.
The startup landed $15 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lee announced in June.
The 21-year-old also wrote in a post on Wednesday that he will be “reviewing every application by hand.”
“I’ve removed every field in the job application except link to your portfolio,” he wrote. “I only care about how good your work is.”
“I do not care about school, experience, age, citizenship status, etc. Please be world-class,” he added.
Lee told Business Insider on Thursday that the response has been “going very well.” He has reviewed about “1,200/2,000 applications” for a founding designer and about 3,000 applications for founding engineers.
He said he spends about two seconds on each portfolio. “As soon as I find something wrong with it, I’ll reject them,” Lee said.
About 1 in every 100 portfolios makes the cut, and those candidates receive an interview request. “I’ve sent out a few emails,” he said.
Hiring a small but killer team
In the LinkedIn post on Thursday, Lee said that startups “don’t need 100 people,” but “a few killers who move insanely fast.”
Lee previously said that the startup only hires engineers and influencers, and he is betting big on the latter to drive growth.
Cluely needs to be “the biggest thing” on Instagram and TikTok, Lee said in an episode of the “Sourcery” podcast published in June. “Every single big company is known by regular people,” he added.
Lee previously told BI that his main goal for Cluely is to reach 1 billion views across all platforms.
Some startup founders also said they’ve preferred to keep their teams lean.
Windsurf’s founder, Varun Mohan, said on an episode of the “Twenty Minute VC” podcast published last month that early-stage product teams should ideally just comprise three to four people.
A small, “opinionated” group moving fast to prove an idea is “actually really good,” he added.
Some of AI’s biggest names have built with tiny teams, such as Anysphere, the maker of coding copilot Cursor.
The advent of AI has also enabled startups to do more with less, prompting some founders to maintain extremely lean teams.
“We’re going to see 10-person companies with billion-dollar valuations pretty soon,” OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in February 2024.
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- Tesla urged potential US buyers to order now due to limited vehicle supply this quarter.
- Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill ends the $7,500 EV credit, which will likely affect Tesla’s US sales.
- On Wednesday, Tesla reported a revenue decline and saw its stock drop 4%.
Tesla has a message for Americans: If you want our cars, buy them now.
On Wednesday’s earnings call, Tesla’s chief financial officer, Vaibhav Taneja, said that President Donald Trump’s tax law could affect the availability of its cars. One of the law’s changes is the removal of the $7,500 EV credit by the end of the quarter.
“Given the abrupt change, we have limited supply of vehicles in the US this quarter,” Taneja said. “If you are in the US and looking to buy a car, place your order now as we may not be able to guarantee delivery orders placed in the later part of August and beyond.”
Earlier this month, the House passed the final version of the bill, which extends the president’s 2017 tax cuts and makes key changes to the tax system. The law also ends the $7,500 EV tax credit awarded to buyers on September 30, which analysts saw as a win for smaller rivals such as Lucid and Rivian, who are less dependent on the credit.
The Tesla CFO said that the company would start “paring” back planned incentives as cars start to sell.
After the tax law was passed, Tesla began offering perks such as free supercharging on select models, a one-month free trial of Full Self‑Driving, and a $1,000 discount for “American heroes” like military members, teachers, and first responders.
Tesla said it delivered over 384,000 vehicles in the quarter that ended in June.
On the call, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla is in a “weird transition period” as it navigates the expiration of incentives and the wider regulatory environment for autonomous vehicles.
The Trump administration’s tariffs are also raising costs for the automaker, the CFO said.
“While we are doing our best to manage these impacts, we are in an unpredictable environment on the tariff front,” Taneja said. He estimated that the cost of the tariffs increased by around $300 million this quarter.
On Wednesday, the EV giant reported second-quarter revenue of $22.5 billion, compared to expectations of $22.64 billion — its sharpest quarterly revenue decline in at least the last 10 years.
It reported earnings per share, a key measure of profitability, were 40 cents, compared to Wall Street’s estimates of 42 cents.
Tesla’s stock fell over 4% after hours on Wednesday. It is down 17.6% so far this year.
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Pedro Arrupe is a candidate for sainthood, but an abuse victim’s lawsuit turned up evidence that he didn’t prevent child molester Donald Dickerson from being ordained after learning of allegations
Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s aspiring priests had been accused of sexually molesting two minors and acknowledged making sexual advances on a third.
The man was ultimately ordained, and there is no indication in records in the court case in Louisiana state court that Arrupe – who coined the Jesuits’ slogan “men for others” – took steps to prevent him from becoming a priest. The man was later accused of molesting other minors he met through his ministry.