Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs

Описание: Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, an AI audio company he started in 2022 with his longtime friend Piotr Dąbkowski. He explains how a frustration with poorly dubbed content in Poland led them to build frontier speech technology, why ElevenLabs combines audio research with product deployment and how its focus on voice shapes where the company chooses to compete. Mati also describes the Palantir-inspired operating model behind ElevenLabs: small autonomous teams, a flat organization and forward deployed engineers who work directly with customers and feed what they learn back into the product. He discusses using AI to amplify human potential, helping people who have lost their voices speak again, why imperfections can make AI voices feel more human and his belief that voice will become one of the primary ways people interact with AI. After turning down multiple acquisition offers, Mati says he and Piotr are committed to building ElevenLabs independently and pursuing what they see as a rare opportunity to reshape how humans communicate with technology.

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Chapters
00:00:00 Building an AI-Native Company Before ChatGPT
00:02:59 Why ElevenLabs Started With Audio & Dubbing
00:12:37 Research + Product Deployment: How ElevenLabs Is Built
00:16:15 Focus as a Competitive Advantage
00:18:47 Building an Ecosystem Around Voice
00:22:25 The Communication Platform & Deutsche Telekom
00:28:29 Forward Deployed Engineers & Lessons From Palantir
00:33:41 Flat Organizations, Transparency & AI-Native Management
00:37:19 Small Teams & Putting Engineers Everywhere
00:43:00 Where ElevenLabs Is Growing Fastest
00:44:38 Taste, Art & Science in AI
00:48:23 Using AI to Amplify Human Potential
00:55:19 Becoming an Entrepreneur & Building With Piotr
00:56:49 Why Mati Won’t Sell ElevenLabs
01:04:01 Voice as the Interface for AI
01:06:49 Turning Conferences Into a Business Tool