Piotr Dabkowski

Everything Piotr Dabkowski said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z 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

a16z 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

a16z 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

a16z 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

The other half of the tape: Piotr Dabkowski's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Mati Staniszewski 4

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Piotr's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Co-founder & CTO, ElevenLabs	1	4	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →