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20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: Conversational AI agents will completely replace inbound SDR roles
“The function of an inbound SDR is I'm sure the best ones are persuasive and they're friendly, but really the function is data collection, and so instead, one, why don't you just add that to the form in the first place? Well, the reason is people don't really w…”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 1:07:06 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
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harries: ElevenLabs founders want to build a bigger company than Google
“Matty and Peter literally want to build a bigger company than Google.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 12:27 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: AI will push product managers into growth or product engineering
“Yeah, I think PMs move to either growth, so you combine the PM role with marketing, and depending on your size and how strong your engineers are, you do more or less of the PM, or many PMs will actually move towards product engineering, which is they're somewh…”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 51:54 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
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harries: ElevenLabs Founders Aim to Build a Company Larger Than Google
“Matty and Peter literally want to build a bigger company than Google. They want to build something absolutely massive.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 13:29 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: Long-form blog SEO content will increasingly die over time
“This is, you know, long words, long-form articles. That, I think, will increasingly die over time.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 28:42 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: Interactive SEO tool pages will remain effective for five-plus years
“The part which I am confident will stick around for at least five years are tool pages”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 28:57 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
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harries: Curative was one of the fastest companies to reach $100M revenue
“The company we partnered with took a different approach. You know, they were some of the first people to do these testing, did incredibly well. One of the fastest companies ever to a hundred million dollars in revenue. And that company became curative.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 9:30 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: Interactive SEO Tool Pages Will Remain Effective for Five Years
“The part which I am confident will stick around for at least five years are tool pages”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 29:59 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: Traditional PMs Will Shift Into Growth or Product Engineering
“Yeah, I think PMs move to either growth, so you combine the PM role with marketing, and depending on your size and how strong your engineers are, you do more or less of the PM, or many PMs will actually move towards product engineering, which is they're somewh…”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 52:56 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
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harries: 60% to 70% of Core Engineering Code at ElevenLabs Is AI-Written
“In terms of core engineering, I would say probably 60, 70% of code now is AI written, so still like the majority.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 53:42 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
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Harries: ElevenLabs Won't Build Digital Avatars to Avoid Competing With Clients
“We want to build the best platform to make these end-to-end conversational AI agents, but we explicitly don't want to be building full digital avatar platforms, so that way we're able to be trusted partners to companies like Hey Jen, Synthesia, Captions, who a…”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:56 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
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Harries: Wordware raised $40M, the largest Y Combinator raise ever
“And also Philip, the guy who organized it, he founded Wordware, which is the largest raise from YC ever. I think it's about forty million dollars.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 5:46 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
20VC Assertion Supported
Harries: Men's health startup Fella generates over $30M annual revenue
“That company's now doing over thirty million dollars a year in revenue, helping thousands of patients”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 10:36 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
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Harries: ElevenLabs enterprise marketing team will reach 20 people this year
“Our enterprise marketing team, by the end of this year, will be 20 people, and that's just for enterprise marketing, and then separately, our mobile app will be its own five to A 10 person growth team.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 14:36 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
20VC Assertion Supported
Harries: X Algorithmically Downranks Tweets Containing External Links
“Don't put the link in the first tweet, because Elon Musk has even said they actively downrank people when they do that.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 27:36 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
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Harries: Over 70% of Zapier's SEO traffic goes to its blog
“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 28:51 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
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Harries: Wordware's $40M Round Is the Largest Y Combinator Raise Ever
“And also Philip, the guy who organized it, he founded Wordware, which is the largest raise from YC ever. I think it's about forty million dollars.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 6:48 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
20VC Assertion Supported
Harries: Former startup Fela generates over $30M in annual revenue
“Richie has done an incredible job, and that company's now doing over thirty million dollars a year in revenue, helping thousands of patients”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 11:43 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
20VC Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Harries: Most ElevenLabs Product Launches Achieve 200K to 700K Views
“Most launches get somewhere between 200,000 views and 700,000 views.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 22:02 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
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Harries: Over 70% of Zapier's SEO Traffic Goes to Its Blog
“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 29:52 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
20VC Assertion Supported
Harries: Curative reached $100M revenue at record speed
“One of the fastest companies ever to a hundred million dollars in revenue. And that company became curative.”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 8:36 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
20VC Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Harries: ElevenLabs enterprise marketing team will reach 20 people this year
“Our enterprise marketing team by the end of this year will be 20 people, and that's just for enterprise marketing. And then separately, our mobile app will be its own five to 10 person growth team.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 15:38 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
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harries: Freelance Motion Designers Charge $5K to $10K Per Product Launch
“Most motion designers, they work with you on a specific project for about five to 10 K.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 21:52 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
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