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ElevenLabs and its founders
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- 0:00Two kids in Warsaw hated how American
- 0:02movies sounded in Polish. The AI voice
- 0:04company is now worth $11 billion.
- 0:07In Poland, foreign films are often
- 0:09voiced by a single narrator.
- 0:11One flat voice for every character.
- 0:12[music]
- 0:13Men, women, children, all the same.
- 0:16Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski
- 0:18grew up with it. Piotr went [music] to
- 0:20Google. Mati went to Palantir.
- 0:23In 2022, they started Eleven Labs.
- 0:26The idea was a voice that keeps its
- 0:27emotion in any language. In January
- 0:292023, [music]
- 0:30they opened the beta.
- 0:32Type any text and it speaks like a
- 0:34person. [music] Creators, audiobooks,
- 0:36games, films.
- 0:38Almost 30 languages, [music] then dozens
- 0:40more.
- 0:41In 2025, the company was valued at $3.3
- 0:44billion. It closed the year with
- 0:45It closed the year with over 300 million
- 0:47in annual [music] revenue.
- 0:49In February 2026, $11 billion.
- 0:52And every word you just heard in this
- 0:53video, [music]
- 0:54Eleven Labs.
- 0:55>> Follow Vibecnomics for more.
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