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Mati Staniszewski

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

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Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, a voice AI and synthetic speech platform launched in 2022. Before starting the company with Piotr Dąbkowski, he worked as a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies and helped develop the Aladdin Wealth platform at BlackRock.

14statements → 7claims → 1claims resolved → 4.36/5average certainty → 1.79/5average debate potential → ≈3.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 3said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 5 assertions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mati argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs, Disney, and Epic Games brought interactive Darth Vader to Fortnite
“Fortnite launched Darth Vader, which people and players could interact with live, in partnership with the estate, in partnership with Disney, so every player, after reaching a certain stage, could have a Darth Vader interact and help you solve the missions.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 23:28 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour

How they sound: speaking style how? →

274 words/min while actually speaking · 33.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mati Staniszewski: only 7 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 7 raw tape exchanges is ≈3.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,477 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Mati Staniszewski said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski says the company has never employed product managers
“We don't have any PMs.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 7:14 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Insight
Staniszewski: People disclose sensitive details more openly to AI than humans
“With AI, people are much more open to share what actually happened, give the information, and suddenly this emotional block of, like, in front of other human, I don't want to be able to say all of that, is, is, is very different.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 14:59 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs aims for human-level conversational voice fidelity in 2026
“We hope this year we'll do that same thing for voice where any conversation feels like you're speaking with another human.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 30:16 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ElevenLabs reaches $600 million ARR after rapid revenue scaling
“It took us roughly 20 months to get to the first hundred million in ARR, roughly 10 months to get to 200, five months to get to 300 and that's how we closed, and end of the last year, and now we are at 600.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 1:13 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Insight
Staniszewski: Voice AI performance depends on model architecture over scale
“It's the architecture that matters, not the scale. You really need to change how the model operates.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 27:07 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ElevenLabs retained 100% of its initial 10 core employees
“From the first 10 people, we had zero attrition. Everybody is, ah, ah, still at the company from those core research and engineering talent building together with us.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 3:11 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Disclosure
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs embeds software engineers in non-engineering teams like legal and talent
“The way we are structured is A lot of small teams, especially across the product engineering, but also in how we think about go-to-market optimized for specific industries, telco, financial services, healthcare, so every unit is very tightly knit together and …”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 4:50 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Insight
Not using AI is a red flag, but overusing it is too
“If you're not using a lot of the coding software, a lot of the co-working software, then you're probably in the wrong spot. If you're using too much of it, that is also a flag because you maybe are not doing that in the right way.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 5:46 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Staniszewski: Consumers will soon ask directly for AI customer service agents
“Yeah, it's slowly becoming that you will be asking for a give me an AI agent effectively on the call.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 9:59 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Disclosure
ElevenLabs powers voice AI for Revolut, Klarna, and PacBank
“We work with a lot of financial services companies Revolut, Klarna, PacBank”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 14:35 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Disclosure
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs has paid over $22M to voice talent
“Today we paid back over twenty two million dollars back to the community of talent.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 21:04 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Assertion Supported
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs, Disney, and Epic Games brought interactive Darth Vader to Fortnite
“Fortnite launched Darth Vader, which people and players could interact with live, in partnership with the estate, in partnership with Disney, so every player, after reaching a certain stage, could have a Darth Vader interact and help you solve the missions.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 23:28 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ElevenLabs grows team headcount to 600 employees
“We have 600 people today”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 2:26 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs built an internal team of 1,000+ data labelers
“We build an internal team of over a thousand contractors that label all those audio assets to make them good.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 27:16 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour

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Appearances (1)

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The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour Jul 14, 2026 16m
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