The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the world's leading AI voice platform. Since launching in 2022, ElevenLabs has raised over $350M, most recently at a $3.3BN valuation, making it one of Europe's fastest AI unicorns. The company counts Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Sequoia Capital among its backers. Today, Mati announces that the company has hit a staggering $200M ARR. ElevenLabs took 20 months to hit $100M ARR. 10 months to hit $200M ARR. Can they do $300M in 5 months…
AGENDA:
[] $100M in 20 Months?! ElevenLabs Untold Growth Story
[] Are AI Models Already Plateauing—or Just Getting Started?
[] Why OpenAI Can't Beat ElevenLabs
[] The Talent Wars: How Do You Retain World-Class AI Researchers?
[] PR vs Product: Why Most Startups Botch Their Launch
[] Are U.S. VCs Playing a Different Game Than Europe?
[] The Real Cost of AI: Why ElevenLabs Built Its Own Data Centers
[] Voice Agents = Multi-Billion Dollar Business of the Future?
[] Buy OpenAI or Anthropic? Which Foundation Model Wins?
[] Europe: Strengths, Weaknesses and What Needs to be Done
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