The Future of Voice AI: Agents, Dubbing, and Real-Time Translation with ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

Hi, listeners. Welcome back to No Priors. Today, I'm here with Mahdi Saines, the cofounder and CEO of Eleven Labs, which is founded to change the way we interact with each other and with computers with voice. Over three short years, they've skyrocketed to more than 300,000,000 in run rate. Mahdi and I talk about the future of voice, education, customer experience, and the other applications of this voice, as well as how to build a multi segment from self serve to enterprise and combined research and product company. Welcome, Mahdi. Sara, thanks for having me. And And thank you for doing this at seven in the morning. Our pleasure. Thank you for doing that at seven in the morning. It's great we we we we got to finally do this together. I think a lot of our listeners will have used or played with Eleven at some point. But for everybody else, can you just reintroduce the company? Definitely. We, at Eleven Labs, we are solving how humans and technology interact, how you can create seamlessly with that technology. What this means in practice is we build foundational audio models. So models in a space to help you create speech that sounds human, understand speech in a much better way, or orchestrate all those components to make it interactive, and then build products on top of that foundational models. And we have our creative product, which is a platform for helping you with narrations for audiobooks, for voiceovers, for ads, or movies, or dabs of those movies to other languages. And our agents, platform product, which is effectively an offering to help you elevate customer experience, build an agent for personal AI, education, new ways of immersive media. But all is kind of under underlied with that mission of solving how we can interact with technology on our terms in a better way. You started the company in 2022? That's right. And you've had amazing, like, rocket ship growth since then. I'm sure it's fell to up and down different ways. I wanna ask you about that. Can you give a sense of what the scale of the company is today? So we've grown to 350 people globally. We started from from Europe. We started as a remote company and are still first remote first, but have hubs around the world with London being the biggest, New York being second biggest, Warsaw with San Francisco, and now Tokyo, and one in Brazil. We are at, dollars 300,000,000 in ARR, which is, roughly fiftyfifty between self serve. So a lot of subscription and creators using our creative platform. And then approaching 50, percent on the enterprise side using our agents platform, at work, and that's on the sales led classic sales led side. And we serve more than 5,000,000 monthly actives on that on that on that creative, side of the work. And then on the enterprise side, we have few thousand customers from Fortune five hundreds to some of …