ElevenLabs went from 10 people to 400 in under 3 years—and they're hiring to reach 900+ by end of 2025. The secret? They screen heavily for ego in every interview, immediately filtering out anyone who puts personal glory over outcomes.
“Now we're at 400 and haven't stopped scaling.”
I joined almost three years ago. We were 10 people at the time. Now we're at 400 and haven't stopped scaling. We want to be at 900 and above by the end of the year, not just by projecting the headcount growth and saying this is how fast we're scaling, but actually looking at what are the products we wanna build, what are the markets we wanna conquer, and who do we need to make that happen as lean and performant as possible. And we have so much on the agenda that we we need 900 plus people by the 2026 to make that happen. So on the talent acquisition side of operations, there will be a lot going on. The
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Concrete hiring philosophy with specific numbers showing hypergrowth trajectory.
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When someone gets a shout-out at ElevenLabs, the first thing they do is pass credit to everyone else they worked with. When something goes wrong, multiple people raise their hands saying 'I could have done better.'
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