ElevenLabs targets 'hyper competitive and cutthroat externally' but humble and collaborative internally. They want to win markets and ship the best products, but believe the best ideas can come from anyone—regardless of seniority.
“We are an ambitious bunch and want to be the best, ship the best product, have excellence everywhere, win the markets, do it all.”
Yes. I think we are hyper competitive and cutthroat externally. We really want to win. We are an ambitious bunch and want to be the best, ship the best product, have excellence everywhere, win the markets, do it all. But when it comes to collaboration and working in a team, we are very humble, open minded, want to make sure that we hear the best perspectives to land on the best possible solution knowing that that could come from anyone. And if keeping that in mind is also somewhere where the no titles helps because there's no hierarchy and no, necessary person that will overrule someone else or is right. But anyone can come up with the best ideas, and we want the best ideas to win. Is it hard to find people who are both, you know, incredibly capable, execution focused and driven,
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Articulates dual nature of being externally aggressive while internally collaborative.
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Three years ago, only AI evangelists knew ElevenLabs. After announcing their $11 billion valuation, the hiring challenge flipped from convincing people to join to sifting through massive inbound applications.
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