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He Beat Amazon, Meta, and TikTok Interviews w/ AI (Then Raised $5.3M) | Roy Lee

In this episode of The Early Founder, I sit down with Roy Lee—the 21-year-old behind Interview Coder, an AI tool that auto-solves LeetCode problems in real time. What started as a controversial stunt (that got him suspended from Columbia and lost job offers from Amazon, Meta, and TikTok) quickly went viral, leading Roy to raise $5.3M for his next company: Cluely. Today, Interview Coder is growing at breakneck speed, hitting $2.2M ARR in just weeks. And with Cluely, Roy is aiming even higher—redefining how humans interact with computers in a multimodal AI world. 🎙️ In this conversation, we talk about: How Roy went from SAT tutoring and Pokémon flipping to viral startup founder The real story behind getting rescinded from Harvard and suspended from Columbia The insane virality and backlash of Interview Coder—and how he handled it Why risk-taking isn’t innate, and how Roy trained himself to go all-in Why he believes building in public (even through chaos) is Gen Z’s superpower What Cluely is, and why it might be the most ambitious consumer AI product yet 🔥 Whether you agree with Roy or not, his story is one of boldness, speed, and unapologetic ambition. Tune in for one of the most controversial and fascinating interviews yet. #startups #founderstory #genz #AI #venturecapital #interviewcoder #viralmarketing #cluely #columbia #risktaking #theearlyfounder