Piotr Dabkowski

Co-founder & CTO, ElevenLabs · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2022, he co-founded ElevenLabs with Mati Staniszewski, where he leads engineering and research in generative AI audio synthesis. Previously an ML engineer at Google, he helped scale ElevenLabs to a multi-billion-dollar valuation.

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Opinion

Dabkowski: Voice is the only AI modality that evokes real emotion

“Voice is the only AI modality that can actually make you feel something. And so when you have text, yes, you can have a poem or a story but it doesn't give you that same kind of emotive feel.”

Piotr Dabkowski Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 9:46 From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

Disclosure

Dabkowski: ElevenLabs eliminated job titles to filter out high-ego applicants

“We removed all the titles, and it's a great way, both initially, of filtering for people who are very low ego, and so if you're coming in, yes, I want to be VP of blah-de-blah, you're not going to get VP, and so it actually will turn off those people, but I'd …”

Piotr Dabkowski Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 7:33 From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

Insight

Dabkowski: Trusting 'mini-founders' drastically reduces company management effort

“If you can grade people, there is very little effort needed to run the company because you can just trust these mini founders.”

Piotr Dabkowski Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 7:07 From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

Opinion

Dabkowski: Apple's Siri fails to cross threshold of realistic human emotion

“It sounds more realistic, but again, it doesn't cross that threshold of actually sounding like a human and actually making you feel something.”

Piotr Dabkowski Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 0:24 From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story

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