Mati Staniszewski
Mati Staniszewski is a Polish entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, a company specializing in natural-sounding speech synthesis software using deep learning. He co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022 with his high school friend Piotr Dabkowski, after previously working as a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies. He is best known for building ElevenLabs into one of Europe's most valuable AI startups, providing voice cloning and conversational AI technology used across audiobooks, videogames, and enterprise applications. He studied mathematics at Imperial College London and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in 2024 and TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2025.
“he doesn't mind [gross margins] getting squeezed even further if it means expanding the company's market share.”
Source→“The 11 Labs founders I will give a shout out to just because we did the Series A and a bunch around since so I've had the opportunity to work with them a bunch over time... Matty and Pietro two Polish founders from this tiny little country in Europe they just crossed 500 million dollars I think in annual current revenue and they're only a few years old.”
Source→“Matty and Pietro two Polish founders from this tiny little country in Europe they just crossed 500 million dollars I think in annual current revenue and they're only a few years old.”
Source→“From the original team, very research, very engineering heavy. From the first 10 people, we had zero attrition. Everybody is still at the company from those core research and engineering talent building together with us.”
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