ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on building an AI-native company and voice ecosystem

annbordetsky · x · 2026-09-10

A full Latent Space podcast conversation with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski covering: building an AI-native company before ChatGPT, why audio and dubbing came first, research-to-deployment structure, focus as competitive advantage, the Deutsche Telekom communications platform, forward deployed engineers and Palantir lessons, flat organizations and AI-native management, small distributed teams, fastest-growing markets, and taste/art/science in AI.

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