Piotr Dabkowski
person on 6 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes · said 35 times in 9 episodes since 2025
20VC 23 
No Priors 5 
the a16z Podcast 4 
Sourcery 2 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Cheeky Pint
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20VC 23No Priors 5the a16z Podcast 4Sourcery 2the Official SaaStr Podcast 1
2026 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- CRO Confidential: 0 to $600M in Under 4 Years. The ElevenLabs GTM Playbook with Carles Reina
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2025 28 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
- ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- 20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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5 statements about Piotr Dabkowski, every show
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs applied transformer and diffusion concepts to voice
“And here credit to my co-founder, Piotr, who effectively came with that new idea of how you can now create voice models, which are both reliable, high quality, quick, where you would bring a lot of the ideas from transformer models, from diffusion models into …”
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.”
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 …”
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.”