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Weitzman: ElevenLabs inference costs range from $30 to $100 per million characters
“For the like standard model is anywhere from 70 to a hundred bucks. And for the V three fast model, it's like 30 bucks.”
Cliff Weitzman May 9, 2026 ▶ 1:38:29 Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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ElevenLabs speech-to-text beats OpenAI and Gemini on benchmarks
“Then speech to text is beating open AI, Gemini on benchmarks.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 14:06 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Reyna scaled ElevenLabs revenue from zero to over $350M ARR
“He's scaled the revenue org from zero to over three hundred and fifty million in ARR.”
Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 0:17 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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ElevenLabs generates revenue using an internal AI customer success manager
“And that has close deals for us already. We generate money from that AI customer success manager fundamentally because it is humanly, right?”
Carles Reina Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 5:36 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Staniszewski: ElevenLabs will reach 400 employees by year end
“We'll have 400 by end of the year.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 1:00:44 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Staniszewski: OpenAI will definitely enter the AI voice market
“They definitely will, but I think they, you know, they lack the...”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 0:48 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Reyna committed to investing in ElevenLabs after a 30-minute conversation
“11, I mean, like, I talked to Matic for 30 minutes and I committed, right?”
Carles Reina Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 1:18:59 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Staniszewski: a16z connected ElevenLabs with celebrities before investing
“A-sixteen Z was phenomenal. They did exactly what we spoke about, which was, they've shown us that they cared before they invested. They introduced us to incredible people, to some celebrities to work on the voice licensing. So they were like on it for two wee…”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 33:42 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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ElevenLabs reached $35M ARR by the end of 2023
“The end of twenty-twenty-three, I think we were between 35, 35? Thirty-five million.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 1:02:47 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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ElevenLabs grew headcount from under 100 to 250 in seven months
“Scaling the company from less than a hundred to now, 250 in a span of seven months while keeping culture intact.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 1:20:14 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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