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Staniszewski: ElevenLabs partnered with Merlin and Kobalt to license music
“The, so we worked with labels that the Merlin and Cobalt, so fourth majors to bring their music into the music model so we can do it in a licensed way so you can generate that and give commercial rights so you are fully protected.”
Mati Staniszewski Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 16:29 ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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A foundational AI competitor attempted to license ElevenLabs models for demos
“We had this case recently where one of our foundational level competitor came to us wanting to license our models for demos, and of course the incentive would suggest that you should sell to them, but luckily, luckily we didn't.”
Mati Staniszewski Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 30:29 ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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Staniszewski: ElevenLabs hired top AI researcher out of call center
“So we hired a person that had an incredible open source text-to-speech model and was working in the call center at the same time as a recipient of the calls to make money. And he's now on the team, one of the most brilliant researchers we have doing all the da…”
Mati Staniszewski Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 8:37 ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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Staniszewski: ElevenLabs failed when asking software engineers to do sales
“Our initial take was, of course, we want to be an engineering company. We don't want salespeople. We would like to reinvent that and have, like, engineers do the sales. We did hire one traditional salesperson and one non-traditional salesperson, like an engine…”
Mati Staniszewski Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 21:21 ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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Staniszewski: ElevenLabs kills pre-PMF products if unproven after six months
“The pre-product market fit. Your mission is, is to ship until you think we've hit the product market fit, and usually we give the six-month period of, like, proving it out. If not, we kill the product, and we've killed product in the past in this way”
Mati Staniszewski Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 27:24 ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
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